Sometimes there are just certain souls that seem destined for trouble:
Just sayin'...
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?
“As an 8-year-old during the war in Bosnia, the son was stabbed by a friend who decided to hate him because he was Roman Catholic, his mother said. The family fled to Orlando, where pain from Mario’s injury dogged him, and he struggled to fit in.”
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This family has had a tough life and the mother still found the power to forgive. A lesson to us all. I wish her son could have found help while he was here in America. this is so sad. I wish it could have ended better.
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.
Had this been someone from the Ghetto, and you know what I mean by that....they would be ready to sue by now! That is why they are playing up the “forgiveness” by this Mother.
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.
best comment award!!!!
She “forgave” the pharmacist?
For some reason I can envision the pharmacist getting a puzzled look and shrugging like, “Uh... ooo-kayyy.”
He comes from that part of Eastern Europe where everyone has messed up hair and never smiles for pictures...
Try asking my pharmacist to “hurry up, please.” That alone will send him for his shotgun. :-)
Not necessarily. He sounds like he was a problem to her, too. I have known parents of drug-addicted adult children, and believe me, by that time they’re not looking for excuses anymore and they all know that sooner or later, something like this is going to happen - or there will be an overdose. In any case, they keep on hoping that something will work and there will be a change, but most of them are resigned to the fact that there’s not much hope.
Interesting tidbit from the article, I assume since this happened in Bosnia, the "friend" was a peaceful harmless 8 year old Muzzie.
The looney left would blame Bush for this and accuse him of murder by association, but of course it was under the Clinton administration we helped the Muslim population of Bosnia so it's crickets.
Thank you for freeking me out. The picture is creepy. :)
Nothing happened.
SEE THERE!! Now with proper gun control laws in effect, the pharmacist would be dead and this “good boy” would still be making his tender and loving mother proud!
>>That’s the problem with mothers these days ~ not nearly cold blooded and heartless enough for some folks.
She raised him, she should be apologizing to the poor pharmacist — that guy probably has a terrible weight that is totally being ignored.
I understand her grieving but this story is spun like her son is the good guy.
I’m thankful I wasn’t born in Bosnia like her and her family.
Graybeard58,
I think, because of her faith, this mother wanted good to come out of this bad situation.
She is expressing herself in English which isn’t her 1st language.
She told about the bad things her son had done. She knew he was on a bad path and “watched the evening news for her son”, because she feared it would come to something like this.
She went to the pharmacy to reach out to the pharmacist who had to kill her son.
“But now I have another miracle,” the mother said in an interview this week. She forgave the pharmacist who shot her son. (Not because she thought he was in the wrong, but...)
“He needs help. He’s still alive,” Vukomanovic said. “I know it’s not easy to kill somebody.”
I could be wrong about the whole thing, but, I believe this is a good woman who loved her son despite the path he had taken. I think she wanted to tell the pharmacist that she knew that path would lead to this, that she was glad her son didn’t kill anyone there, and that she wanted the pharmacist, who is a religious man, to know that she forgave him for doing what he had to do, and that he should forgive himself as well.
The mother forgiving him is a nice gesture, but I think she knows that what happened is probably a better outcome than having her son be in jail or executed for killing someone in a robbery.
Roger that!
Who’s offering to forgive this “mother” for raising such a criminal dumb shit son?
I think she is well known in the Orlando Sentinel for sympathizing with the criminals. She’s their crime reporter and there have been other such articles written with a slant of sympathy towards the perps.
“Well, in today’s climate it is an unusual facet of the story. Everyone else would be suing the shooter for wrongful death”
Then you’d better be pretty darned patient!!! But have no fear, if he attacks you with no provocation with a gun, we’ll forgive him. ack!
The pharmacist and the mother have my sympathy. There are plenty of decent and kind people who have children who are bad. People who have children know that the love they have for them is unconditional.
Forgive him for almost getting his ass shot off by the waster son she failed to raise right?? He would be the one to forgive her.
Geez, he probably took up a life of crime out of rage and frustration over all the fugly ass girls surrounding him. Geez.
I have sympathy for the mother but the way this article is written, you’d think her son was a victim. The article has a tone of sympathy for him and although any mother will love her son, good or bad, he was a thug who now won’t be able to hurt or kill anyone.
Her son was a criminal robbing someone and got shot, and the victim who fought back needs to be forgiven?
What did she forgive him for? Being faster than her son? For defending his own life against a whacked out druggie? Did she forgive him for being the guy behind the counter that day?
Next she’ll be forgiving herself for screwing up her kid.
Yeah, really.
A few years ago we had some real forgiveness freaks on FR. My favorite forgiveness scenario was the following situation: John Doe commits murder by shooting Richard Roe in Philadelphia. Sam Shlunk in Hollywood California forgives John Doe.
You’d think by what you read here that no conservative, Christian, freepers ever had a kid that turned out bad. My kid has had his moments but I’m pretty sure he’s not going to get shot during a holdup.
I know kids of friends and co-workers who are in all kinds of trouble. There aren’t a lot of them that I can look at and say, yeh, the parent is DEFINITELY the problem.
I’m pretty sure the woman didn’t look for a writer to get her name in the paper. Just think how pissed you’d be if she complained to the writer, “Why din’t he shoot him in da laig or de gone out his han’?”
I like a good successful self-defense story as much as the next guy but I’m not going to crow or grunt at an old woman whose criminal son is dead and chooses to forgive and embrace the man who killed him. Seems to be about as good an ending as possible under the circumstances.
But, the point is she chose to forgive the man who took her son’s life rather than to stay angry. Ofcourse her son brought it on himself, but it would only be human nature to be angry at the man who shot her son. I think it is commendable of her to try to offer solace to the pharmacist.
...spoken like a true a-hole. No parent has the intention of raising a bad kid. Do you think that was her dream? Ultimately her son CHOSE to do awful things and was killed as a result and she is left behind to pick up the pieces. We should be praying for her. Every good mother loves their children.
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