I couldn't do it, no way.
Believe it or not however, as strange and weird as that was, it wasn't a first. It happens usually by moms of the victim. Some say it's about closure.
"This mom came face to face with the teen who murdered her son. Courtroom veterans had never seen a response like hers"
"His death was already ordained,” she told him. “Maybe the purpose is to save your life.”
Rukiye Abdul-Mutakallim, 66, hugs and then speaks quietly with Javon Coulter, 16, during his plea agreement in Judge Megan E. Shanahan's courtroom. Abdul-Mutakallim had just finished publicly speaking to Coulter. She spoke of forgiveness and asked to be part of Coulter's life. Coulter was 14 when he was charged, along with another teen, in the robbery and shooting death of Rukiye's son, Suliman Ahmed Abdul-Mutakallim, 39, on June 28, 2015.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/ne...ws-help-teen-who-murdered-her-son/1008574001/
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In this other bizarre case, the 23 yr old killer murdered his 50 yr old gf (?) whom he had previously attacked, then a few months later, murdered this mother's 17 yr old son over a jealous rage of some sort..some suggesting that he thought he had messed with his gf..
https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/24/mums...s-sons-killer-i-just-want-to-hug-you-9306186/
Mum’s extraordinary forgiveness as she tells son’s killer ‘I just want to hug you’
Javika Wallace-Hawkins stunned a courtroom in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Tuesday with her words to double-murderer Vincente Rodriguez-Ortiz, 23.
She explained how her son Andre Hawkins’ January 2018 shooting had devastated her, and then told Rodriguez-Ortiz: ‘In order to get through this process, I had to forgive you and I forgive you from the bottom of my heart.
‘I pray for you because as a mother, you’re a child to me.
‘And in my heart, I have no anger or bitterness toward you.
‘As a mom, I just want to hug you because I know there is something that is not connected that made you feel so angry.’
Victim son
Victim Laurie Lundenberg
Compare the two families very different reactions at sentencing.
Both speak in this clip..he apologized to Javika, but not to Laurie's family.