“I will never regret that decision of forgiveness.”

When a beautiful summer day in August 2007 suddenly turns into an unthinkable tragedy, Jack and Renee Haley’s lives were turned upside down. That morning, August 3, 2007, their oldest son, Austin, woke up in an unusually serious mood. He cryptically exclaimed that today was going to be a “very bad day.” Renee thought her son may have had a nightmare of some sort, so she encouraged him, and told him he could do three of his favorite things that day, one of which was feeding the fish at their pond.

At the same time, a neighbor had called police about a snake caught in a birdhouse on their property. The police decided to shoot at the snake, inadvertently striking young Austin Haley with a fatal shot to the head. Renee said, “I had no idea

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