The mother of school shooting victim Justin Shilling told the gunman that her son “would’ve been your friend, if you had only asked him.”
“If you were that lonely, that miserable, that lost, and you really needed a friend, Justin would’ve been your friend, if you had only asked him,” Jill Soave told the shooter in court Friday.
Soave said Justin’s siblings, Clay and Nathan, were “robbed of much their youth, their innocence, their joy, their beloved middle brother Justin.”
“Clay, who was only 15, was hiding in the school that day as well, fearing for his life and worrying about Justin’s,” she said.
At times, Soave spoke directly to the shooter, Ethan Crumbley.
“You may have caused the pain and terror as you intended to do, but you did not destroy us,” Soave said. “There is more love and light in this world because of the legacies of Justin, Tate, Hana, and Madisyn.”
Crumbley’s head was down and he didn’t appear to look at Soave when she spoke to him.
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