The ex-girlfriend of a “Facebook Killer” — who killed in her name — met a victim’s family. Joy Lane met with dual of Robert Godwin Sr.’s children and they let her know they do not censure Lane for their father’s death.
Lane, Tonya R. Godwin-Baines and Debbie D. Godwin met on Tuesday (Apr. 18) and a 3 embraced in a hug, prayed and cried together. “I feel bad. The final thing that he would have pronounced was my name and didn’t know me or since he was observant it. And that’s been difficult,” she told a sisters.
Steve “Stevie Steve” Stephens randomly shot and Killed Robert Godwin on Easter Sunday (Apr. 16) in Cleveland and uploaded video footage of a sharpened on Facebook. Godwin was walking down a travel after carrying an Easter dish with his children.
Stephens systematic Godwin to contend Lane’s name. “She’s a reason that this is about to occur to you,” he told a 74-year-old.
Despite Stephens’ annoy towards his ex, Godwin’s children do not blame Joy Lane for Stephens’ actions. “We know it is not her fault,” Robert Godwin Jr. told Fox 8 Cleveland news progressing this week. “She should not feel like it’s her fault.”
Lane, who was placed in protecting control while Stephens was on a loose, says she’s still perplexing to routine a tragedy. She even says people have commented Stephens should have killed her instead of Godwin.
“The hashtags Joy Lane, Joy Lane massacre, we don’t even know who Joy Lane is anymore, or how to collect adult all a pieces of my universe during this moment. I’ve got a lot of disastrous comments. Some even pronounced he should have killed me.”
Lane was in a attribute with Stephens for several years. She pronounced he was a “really good guy” who was also kind to her 3 daughters. She finished a attribute since of Stephens’ gambling issues.
Lane also suggested she final spoke to her ex a night before a shooting. She attempted to call him after Godwin’s murder went viral, though he did not collect adult a phone.
“Each one of us forgives a killer, a murderer,” Tonya Godwin-Baines told CNN. She combined that her father taught his 10 children a significance of forgiveness.
However, another daughter of Godwin’s, Brenda Haymon, is still lamentation and is not prepared to pardon Stephens for holding her father’s life.
“All we can contend is that we wish he had left down in a accost of 100 bullets,” she told CNN after training Stephens had committed suicide. “I wish it had left down like that,” she added.
After a two-day national search, police found Stephens in Erie County, Pennsylvania on Tuesday (Apr. 18). However, he committed self-murder before being apprehended.
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