Posted on 04/25/2009 8:14:31 AM PDT by inflorida
Her son lay dead in his casket. Marija Vukomanovic held fast to her faith.
The pastor told mourners about Lazarus, who rose from the dead.
The mother knelt and reached for her boy.
"I believed in the miracle, so I touched his heart," Vukomanovic said.
Nothing happened. Mario Vukomanovic, 23, war refugee, star student and drug addict, was gone, shot dead as he tried to rob a south Orange County pharmacy April 1 at gunpoint. Orange County deputies said the shooting was self-defense.
"But now I have another miracle," the mother said in an interview this week. She forgave the pharmacist who shot her son.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Very sad.
How big of her to forgive someone who was defend himself from an armed thug.
Big of her to forgive the guy who her son was robbing at gunpoint.
Great minds....
Forgive him for what?
My thoughts exactly. The author of this piece seems to think differently.
That’s the problem with mothers these days ~ not nearly cold blooded and heartless enough for some folks.
Makes one wonder about being too forgiving. Perhaps a few good smacks as the thug grew up may have had different results.
I have zero sympathy because the robber was using a gun. He could have killed someone....Oh yes but he was a good boy and an A+ student a refugee from war torn shitsville
Maybe some day the pharmacist will find it in his heart to forgive her son for making him (the pharmacist) kill him.
That was EXACTLY my first thought.
Love how that story was spun, too. Instead of saying how some drug addicted loser, armed with a gun, threatened an innocent man and was rightly shot for it.... we get... poor mother sobbing over her son’s grave, his life cut short. His mother praying for him to raise from the dead, while disappointed that did not happen, but still found it within her heart to forgive the man who murdered her son.
Sheesh. I am so glad there are those of us who see right thru this crap.
Damn pharmacists, always shooting kids in cold blood....
True.
Like the mother said
"He needs help. He's still alive," .. "I know it's not easy to kill somebody."
Hopefully, the pharmacist has not forgiven her for raising a thug. If this were me I would send the family a bill for replacement ammo and gun cleaning costs I incurred defending myself against their spawn’s criminal behavior.
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