San Francisco 49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall says he forgives the teen who shot him
San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall said he forgives the teenager who shot and wounded him and hopes to talk to the teen someday.
San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall said he forgives the teenager who shot and wounded him and hopes to talk to the teen someday.
"I don’t know how he grew up so, I can’t judge him as a man just based off one action that he made," Pearsall, 24, a rookie, told KNBR radio of San Francisco in a locker room interview posted Monday. "As violent as a crime as it was, God forbid him doing that to somebody else."
"I don’t ever want that to happen, so ... just being able to forgive him at the end of the day, like, I have to be able to forgive him to have that weight off my chest," he said.
Pearsall was shot in the chest in an attempted robbery in San Francisco in August. Police identified the suspect at the time as a 17-year-old boy.
Police Chief Bill Scott said at a news conference in August that the suspect approached Pearsall and tried to commit an armed robbery. There was a struggle, and the "gunfire from the suspect’s gun struck Mr. Pearsall and the suspect," Scott said.
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