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Colorado shooting victim forgives his attacker

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    Victim: 'I forgive you and can I pray with you?'

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-- shooting victim they can be the hardest workers to say I forgive you.

And -- I pray with you.

And I tell you a little bit about who jesus'.

But that's exactly what here so Ferrell vows to do.

Forgive the man accused of shooting him twice in the foot and once in the arm.

And now that message is going from the hospital seventy people.

Had been shot him to the house of god at his church in Aurora.

The edge.

Where the motto is faith hope healing hand you guessed it forgiveness as is the -- two gunshot -- it to the butt and he's walking.

You know there is that incredible -- what.

48 year old talked about that July 20 morning.

I definitely knew.

From the second he walked in that something wasn't right I mean there was something bad was going down yet there was this dark.

Evil presence -- literally it was like time stopped for me and how he was afraid not a dying all my family that I would leave behind.

And my greatest fear was that they would blame god for this.

And I knew this wasn't an act of god at all.

I knew that that this was an act of the darkness you know of the enemy after the service I asked him what else he would say to these suspected shooter at -- next court appearance.

I would like to be there are genuinely would.

But it's just the issue of getting down there are getting out of the car and walking there and you know I just I'm not sure if I'm gonna have enough left in the tank.

And while we are inspired by his strength nobody who knows him is surprised that forgiveness he's -- it's -- been -- -- that.

All totally -- -- Ferrell says the way he has reacted -- the only way he knows how.