“I know my son was a coward,” the killer’s mother told a victim’s family. “You don’t think I don’t know that? I know. You don’t think I’m carrying all that...
, Martinez pleaded for forgiveness for her and her son. Asked why her son would commit the massacre, Martinez replied that he “had his reasons.” On Tuesday, Amerie Jo’s family demanded to know what those reasons were.
“What reasons? Because he was pissed off at you? Because you destroyed him?” the relatives asked, according toMartinez responded that her son had mental-health issues. “You have no right to judge my son,” she told the family. “... may God forgive y’all.” But then she was consolatory: “I know my son was a coward. You don’t think I don’t know that? I know. You don’t think I’m carrying all that with me? ... I know, and I’m sorry.”
Martinez’s apology did little to assuage the girl’s family: “She’s not innocent,” Dana Mendiola, Amerie Jo’s grandmother, told Telemundo. Law enforcement eventually arrived and Martinez got in a police car. Signs of the shooter’s disturbing behavior — which included killing cats and terrorizing women with threats of graphic violence — were ignored in the years leading up to the massacre at Robb Elementary, according to an interim report released over the weekend by a committee investigating the shooting. According to the report, a former girlfriend said she believed the killer was abused by one of his mother’s boyfriends, but his mother didn’t believe him when he mentioned the abuse.
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