say we don t know with a danny and this man, because mark was coming around the living room. it s our foyer and really to the right of the foyer, if you re staring out to the street, and mark was coming around and he heard stuff but he can t tell us what it was. this man had killed a week earlier. the same m.o. with a lawyer california. yeah. when he shot that lawyer, he made the lawyer, he did the same thing. posed as a delivery guy. he needs to sign for it. when the lawyer came, he started shooting. and stepped into the foyer to finish the job. they did all the forensics in my house. that man s footprint was nowhere to be found. my son kept him out of our house. away from you. away from us. away from me and away from his father who he knew was right there. so in my mind, you know, that
sunday, he went down to the desk and paid for three more nights. he was staying in a hotel less than a mail away. he wasn t going to leave. oh, no. and i remember saying to the agent, why do you think he did that? he looked at me stone cold and he said, ma am, he was going to kill you and stay long enough to get the job done. then i remember, at the time i didn t know whether it was my job that did this or something else. and i remember asking the special agent in charge, why did he come in to get me? he must have heard me by that time screaming. what is happening? and i remember running up the stairs. when i got up the stairs, something no mother should ever see, there s danny perpendicular to the door holding his chest, like softly moaning, and my husband was at the porch.
he had dragged himself to the porch trying just to get a license plate of this guy. and then i remember kneeling down and i lifted up danny s shirt and i saw the bullet hole. and then mark managed to get himself right back to where we were. and we were flanking him. and i tell everybody that, you know, i always think of sally fields and that movie that she played, i think it was steel magnolias and she s talking, she s saying, i was there when that beautiful baby came into the world. i was there with you. so sort of like a blessing that he knew his parents were right there. and, you know, it was the worst day of my life. but i have to stay in the light,
not opening things. but it was covid. so we were ordering every day. and my son, i love him to death and he loved my cooking. he did love himself burritos. and they were coming constantly. and it our defenses kind of are just, loosened up a bit. and we all got a little. i have to tell you, again, you know i m a very spiritual person and i don t believe in coincidences. i always say danny s friends from catholic university said, there is no such thing as coincidences. there s god incidences. danny was in the basement with me. we were cleaning up right before the door bell rang and we were having one of those deep conversations that him and i had often and he was telling me all his worries with his friends and
invite friends over on the 17th, a friday night. he was so excited. he was jumping out of his skin. the door bell rang. he would run and get the door and introduce us. look at my mom. she ordered food for us. he was so excited. all the while, the man was outside our door watching his friends one by one come in. it was covid so we were worried. we tried to separate everyone as much as we could. the next morning, you know, i kissed a lot of danny s friends nearby. the ones that stayed were headed to the beach. and i had made breakfast for them that morning. i ll never forget it. i put too much parsley in the eggs. too much parsley! note to self. young men don t want anything green in there. i remember wanting to give him his privacy. i grabbed two dogs and i walked out to the grassy area by my