Mother of School Shooting Victim Forgives Gunman

Teresa Neumann : Mar 5, 2012
Anugrah Kumar - The Christian Post

"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." -Phyllis Ferguson

(Chardon, OH)—Phyllis Ferguson, the mother of Ohio shooting victim Demetrius Hewlin who died February 28 at the hands of gunman T. J. Lane, has publicly forgiven Lane for his crime.

"I forgive him because a lot of times they don't know what they're doing," she said. "I taught Demetrius not to live in the past; to live in today and [that] forgiveness is divine."

"You have to forgive everything," she added, in an interview with ABC News. "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."

According to numerous reports, Lane was a "social outcast," raised in an extremely abusive home, who was also bullied in school.