Officer Tim Matson described in federal court Wednesday how a resilient weed helped to restore his will to live after his body was shattered by bullet wounds in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.
At issue is whether the aggravating factors in the attack — those that make the crime especially heinous — outweigh mitigating factors, such as those that could be seen as reducing Bowers' culpability. Jurors heard a heavy dose of evidence Wednesday, from Bowers' trail of destruction to the long history of abuse in his own family.
Bowers' father physically abused his mother when she was pregnant with him, Porterfield said. A neighbor reported to child protective services that Bowers' parents threatened to kill him as an infant, but investigators dropped the case after his mother told them she was getting a divorce. Bowers' father and stepfather were both discharged from the military due to mental health diagnoses, and both were later charged with sexual offenses. Bowers' father killed himself.
She can't bring herself to attend services as regularly as she did with her mother, whom she misses dearly. “I’m haunted by what happened to me and by what I saw and what I heard that day,” she said.
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