Father Speaks Of The School Attacker In Santa Fe

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The father of Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the alleged perpetrator of the shooting at the high school in Santa Fe, Texas says: "My son is not a criminal, he is a victim." Antonios Pagourtzis spoke to a Greek television channel and defends the 17-year-old, accused of killing 10 people in the massacre.

Univisión published the interview translated into Spanish, in which the desperate father recounts his pain. “It is like being at a funeral, I am at one. I no longer feel joy, I feel the pain of others. I feel the same pain, I feel the same pain, I feel it,”he said.

The man assured that his son was not violent. “My boy was not one to get into fights or the like. He was a good boy, he visited Greece, he did not drink. The only thing I did was lift weights and the like, he added.

The night before the attack, the father says he had dinner with the teenager and saw no unusual behavior. “I cooked him, we sat down to eat together and we played. In the morning he got up and I asked him why he was leaving so early and he said to me: 'I love you dad. I'm going. I love you and I will see you this afternoon, '”he recalled.

The young man was part of a church dance group, was on the school soccer team, and had good grades, according to press reports. "If something happened recently, last week, if someone came to hurt him, he was a good boy and I don't know what could have happened," the father said tearfully. "I can't say what happened."

Antonios Pagourtzis sounded heartbroken. I have lost my child. I lost my child and all I can do is try not to get him executed. My son, for me, is not a criminal, he is a victim,”he said.

The father related that the weapons were his and that he wanted to enter the secondary during the shooting to try to stop his son but the authorities did not let him pass. The boy had no guns, I had guns. They were legal. He took them out of the closet. I told the police to let me in so that he would kill me and that no one else would be hurt.”

Pagourtzis admitted hearing other people call her son 'criminal' was very hurtful. "I cannot accept that," he concluded. "I can't accept what they are saying about him."