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 ...
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.
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