AJ lost his father outside Trolley Square when the shooter ambused them in the parking lot. This article reveals a pattern of by the LDS victims and the LDS community to not feel angry, but to pray for the shooter and his parents.
"We're survivors," Vickie said. "We choose happiness."
The toys, she said, don't matter. And she'll continue to work as a sales rep to bring in money. Vickie doesn't want anyone to think she's looking for sympathy.
The family could be angry at Talovic, but they're not.
"I'm not mad at him," AJ said. "I'm sad over what happened, the choices he made."
AJ and his mother look at each other and agree that Talovic may have had some mental issues. As a parent, Vickie might be angry at Talovic's parents, who buried their own son in their Bosnian homeland just a few days after AJ returned home to South Jordan.
"My heart just aches for them," Vickie said about Sabira and Suljo Talovic, Sulejman Talovic's parents. "Every time I pray for us, I pray for them."
In the next breath, Vickie talks about how AJ lost his best friend and she lost "the love of my life."
For the first time in more than an hour of talking about Feb. 12 with a reporter, she starts to cry. The whole point of waiting until now to speak with media about the shooting was to make sure she and AJ were emotionally ready.
"We just can't go there," she said to herself, trying to regain her composure on a couch inside her home, sitting next to AJ. "Being happy and trying to help others will help mend our hearts."
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