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Grand Junction, Colo.
It was a terrifying late-night call from hundreds of miles away.
“We got a phone call in Colorado Springs,” Mary Boxa, mother of Andrew Boxa said. “I had fallen asleep. Someone else took the call, woke me, and told me we needed to get to Grand Junction. Andrew had been shot.”
Highway closures along I-70 made the agonizing journey even longer.
“On the way down, we were just praying that God would take care of him,” Mary said.
By the time Mary Boxa reached her son in the hospital, it was already too late.
“When we got there the doctors had already pronounced him brain dead,” Mary said. “We were just shocked that he was already gone.”
A loud domestic dispute across the street had drawn Andrew from his home.
“He was a peacemaker, and he was trying to make peace,” Mary said. “Andrew and this gentleman used to watch football together. Andrew felt like he knew him well enough that he might be able to calm him down.”
The same neighbor Andrew was trying to calm down, 31-year-old Robert McCleland, shot him twice with a Glock handgun. Andrew later died from his wounds at St. Mary’s Hospital.
Mary says she has already forgiven the man arrested for shooting her son.
“I pray that God will give me a chance to speak with him face to face,” Mary said. “I want to tell him that he is in my prayers. I pray God’s mercy and grace upon him.”
Andrew leaves behind a wife and two young sons. A white ribbon now stands on Texas Avenue, yards away from where Andrew fell, fatally wounded.
“Their mother is a good, strong, steadfast woman,” Mary said. “These boys are in good hands. It’s drawn us together as a family like never before.”
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