The final words of a dying Christian father of three fatally shot during a Sunday walk with his family on a Wisconsin trail bridge were, “forgive the shooter,” his wounded wife has revealed.
Erin Stoffel, 32, woke from a coma with a breathing tube in her throat on Tuesday just two days after she and her husband of more than a decade, Jonathan, 33, and their 11-year-old daughter, Olivia, were shot during a random attack on the Trestle Trail Bridge in the city of Menasha. While Erin survived the shooting, Jonathan and Olivia did not, and the first thing that the grieving mom of three did when she awoke in a hospital bed was write down her late-husband’s final words to her.