00:03Mr. Rivera, it has taken me a long time to write this, because there are no words for March 25th,
00:112024, and I have learned there never will be.
00:17That day a bullet did not just take my husband, Jonathan, it tore through our entire life.
00:24I stand here speaking directly to you, because this is the last moment I will allow you to take from
00:29me.
00:30We took my husband, Jonathan, we took the future we planned together, the life we were building, the years we
00:37were supposed to share, and the moments our family will never get back.
00:44The court has called this manslaughter, but for me there is nothing lesser about the loss I live with every
00:49day.
00:50In a single moment, everything that was my life was gone.
00:53The life I had with him ended, and the life I live now is marked by his absence.
00:59There is silence in my home where there should be his voice.
01:03I make decisions I was never meant to make alone.
01:07I live with conversations that will never happen, and memories that ended far too soon.
01:13There are milestones Jonathan will never see, the moments with Ryan that should have had his voice, his pride, and
01:19his presence, and the joy we were meant to feel together as a stand.
01:25I wanted a lifetime with him, the ordinary days, the future we assume he would always have, but that was
01:32taken from us.
01:34And I did not get to be there when his life ended.
01:39I did not get to hold the dance.
01:41I did not get to say goodbye.
01:44I did not get to give him the love and the peace he deserves in his final moments.
01:50Donovan was a good man.
01:52He was the person who protected Ryan and I.
01:54Highhoof.
01:54How would heăăăȘă?
01:55I...
01:55But we did not live.
01:55If you had the house where the space would go and stuff.
01:55If you use theì Dan would go not down for him, man.
01:55He could assume, when you do the Pizza thing.
01:56frequcia. All the
01:56how you're not thinking about and out. You should
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