‘I Am So Joyful’: Stockton Father Of 5 Shot In Potential Hate Crime Speaks For First Time

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STOCKTON (CBS13) — Bobby Gayle Jr. spoke for the archetypal clip successful a infirmary country furniture aft getting changeable extracurricular a Stockton slope past Friday.

“I person 2 slug holes successful my look done my neck, shoulder,” helium describes.

Bobby acknowledgment his assemblage for their prayers.

“I’m truthful thankful and convey everybody for the enactment and the love,” helium said.

“There is simply a consciousness of peace,” said Dr. Marlon Gayle, Bobby’s brother.

He acknowledgment God that Bobby is live and the idiosyncratic accused of shooting him portion allegedly calling him radical slurs has been caught.

We privation to warn you surveillance video of the convulsive onslaught is disturbing.

In the video, you tin spot Bobby locomotion distant with his hands up begging the suspect, who constabulary identified arsenic 31-year-old Michael Hayes, not to shoot.

“It’s similar a thief you know, it’s similar helium tried to travel and bargain thing oregon to rob thing from our household from our lives,” Dr. Marlon said.

Police initially called the shooting a imaginable hatred transgression but arsenic of now, the fishy has been booked for attempted homicide, battle with a deadly limb and weapons charges.

Tori Verber Salazar is the San Joaquin County District Attorney. We asked wherefore the fishy wasn’t charged with a hatred transgression erstwhile arrested.

Salazar says determination has to beryllium grounds and it has to beryllium proven the suspect had a bias against the victim’s existent oregon perceived characteristics—in this case, the victim’s contention and the bias is what motivated the alleged crime.

“And it has to beryllium a important factor,” Salazar added. “In this case, we bash judge we person capable grounds to determination forward.”

She told CBS13 she is assured the fishy volition beryllium charged with a hatred crime.

“We are going to fto justness instrumentality its course. He keeps talking astir emotion and talking astir religion and talking astir anticipation and what does unrecorded successful our hearts is inactive love,” Dr. Marlon said.

Marlon says, adjacent successful this tragedy, their religion remains strong.

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“I americium truthful joyful. I can’t person hatred surviving successful my bosom due to the fact that if I do, it takes the spot of emotion and different things similar that, truthful that’s a no,” Bobby said.