The mother of one of those killed in the shooting at Chardon High School in Ohio on Monday says she forgives the shooter because “he didn’t know what he was doing.” Phyllis Ferguson, the mother of Demetrius Hewlin, told ABC News that she always taught her 16-year-old son “not to live in the past, to live in today and forgiveness is divine.”
“You have to forgive everything,” she continued. “God’s grace is new each and every day. Until you’ve walked in another person’s shoes, you don’t know what made him come to this point.”
Ferguson’s son was one of three students killed in the shooting by suspect T. J. Lane, 17. Two others were injured, one is currently paralyzed from the chest down. Lane has admitted to firing 10 shots in the school cafeteria that Monday and will apparently be tried as an adult. His motivation for the shooting is still a mystery; police suspect he chose his victims at random.
