Brian Pendleton, one of in six people killed in execution, would have turned 39 next week, his mother said in emotional phone interview on Wednesday.
“He had real big hear it motherMichelle Johnson said. “Someone who wanted laugh, or just want company, he buy you are having lunch. He would buy are you anything in minute.”
Pendleton worked at Walmart. for nearly 11 years as a custodian and “loved my job,” she said.
“He was just a hard working and good baby, she said.
When family a friend called and told her that at his Walmart, Johnson’s husband went to where the families were told to assemble for reunion. He was told that Brian had been transferred to Norfolk General Hospital, so Johnson and her husband went there, she said.
“We were waiting, and then the police came out with nurse and them took us to side room and that’s when they said us that he didn’t survive,” Johnson said breathlessly. up.
“That’s when they said he didn’t make it,” Johnson said, sobbing. “I just I wonder if he was afraid at the time? I know my son. I don’t want be afraid of him, but I’m not want hurt him.”
Pendleton had a condition called congenital hydrocephalus. Johnson has it too, she said, but they’re both lucky they didn’t have a bad case.
“We are fighters and we trust the Lord,” she said.
It was Pendleton. favorite time of year, with Thanksgiving and his birthday on December 2, Johnson said.
“I don’t understand why what happened happened,” she said.
“I’ll never go to that Walmart again,” she is added.
— Sasha Pezenyk of ABC News
