There were nearly 100 homicides in Oakland, California in 1997. Here’s how one of those deaths led a father to sit down with his child’s killer
His daughter was murdered. This is why he sat down feet from her killer and forgave him.By Drew Kann, CNNChat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.Especially when your baby is delivered in the middle of the night on the floorboard of your car while you're speeding down California's 580 freeway.That's how January 24, 1981, began for Donald Lacy.
Soon enough, Lacy was steering the car with one hand as he helped coax their baby girl into the world with the other. "Her mother ... picked her up," Lacy remembers,"and I was spellbound. She was just beautiful."Read MoreLoEshé Lacy was Donald Lacy's first child."From the time she was a small child, kids really gravitated to her like moths to a light bulb," Lacy said.
Chris Smith explains the night that sent him to prison 01:13"I went into a panic," Smith said."Everyone was kind of looking at me, like, 'You're riding around, you're hanging out with us, you're here ... but what you gonna do?' ... This was my thinking at the time, that If I go and kill someone for my gang, then I would be accepted into a whole other family. A family that will love me, a family that will care for me, a family that will never leave me.
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