A moving exchange played out at the Fresno County Courthouse Friday as a widow came face-to-face with the man convicted of killing her husband last year.
“Before anything, I forgive him,” Leticia Ramirez said through a Spanish interpreter.
She added that Kevin King should now ask for forgiveness from God for the shooting death of Victor Becerra.
King stood with his attorney as Ramirez told the judge about the hole King ripped through her family.
“(He was) a great father (and a) wonderful grandfather to my granddaughter,” Ramirez said.
Becerra was holding his granddaughter when a bullet pierced through the wall of his apartment and hit him in his temple.
Prosecutors say King fired the deadly shot from inside his unit that shared a wall with Becerra’s apartment.
The dramatic scene unfolded near Blythe Avenue and Austin Way in Fresno County in January 2023.
“It’s just a very, very tragic case,” Judge Mark Cullers said.
King was on the loose for more than six months after the shooting.