Deborah Flores
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48 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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She knows all too well what it means when they're led in that room and told to wait. I don't know what came over me, but as soon as that door opened and the doctor walked in, I already knew because of the room I was sitting in. And I could see on everyone's face when I walked in because I know them all.
The doctor confirmed it. He told me that he had been shot. And basically, he died from blood loss. He bled to death. And I was so angry at him. I just remember yelling at him, you know, why didn't you save my son? Why didn't you give him more blood? Why didn't you take him to surgery? Why didn't you save my son? One of the nurses came in and she asked me if I wanted to see my son.
And I said, of course I want to see my son. I started to prepare myself, but somebody stopped me and said, are you sure you want to go in there? And I was confused. Why wouldn't I? Why wouldn't I want to go in there? And apparently it was because of their efforts. There's sometimes, you know, things they have to do to try to save someone's life.
And once you do that, I don't know how to say this other than to just say it, but you can't put them back together. So they made me stand there for a few minutes and think about it. I want you to just stand here for a few minutes and think about it. If you still want to go in, I'll take you in. Think about where you're at and what they probably had to do to try to save him.
And is that the last vision you want of your son to stay with you for the rest of your life? It wasn't. So sometimes I wonder if I made the right choice.
They were just in the dark as we were because nobody had a clue who did this to my son.
When Anton was little, he was so mellow and so quiet. I never had to worry that he was getting into anything.
One day, I go to pick him up from school and the teacher says to me, you might want to have a talk with Aaron. They called him Aaron because he came to school today with his pants on backwards. You know, what's the reason that this kindergartner is coming to school with his pants on backwards? There used to be this group.
I don't know if you've ever heard of them, but they're called Criss Cross Kids. He loved them. And their gimmick was they wore their pants backwards.
She said, I have never in all my years of, you know, being a kindergarten teacher, I have never seen a child do that.
He liked old music, old cars, old clothes. And I don't mean retro-type clothes. I mean zoot suits and shiny shoes.
So he was always asking me, Mom, do we have any toothbrushes? I need a toothbrush. But he used an electric toothbrush.
So he would clean all of his shoes with a toothbrush. He had this thing about always looking crisp and clean and just always looking nice. If that's my biggest worry, then he can have as many toothbrushes as he wants.
His uncle owns a shop. They install hydraulics and things like that. But he would sit in his room and work on car models.
The night of his murder, he was getting together with a bunch of his friends and they were going to hang out one last time that they might all be able to get together at the same time and just hang out at one of the kids' house and play video games and just, you know, goof around at the house and nothing spectacular, just they wanted to just hang out with each other.
I'd never heard any of this stuff before. Where were these people getting this from? Were they just making it up? Were they just curious? But it made me think, if they're thinking that, how many more people are thinking that about my son?
So I called the detective. I had him come over. The detectives that came over, I made them sit in my living room for several hours while they watched home movies of my son when he was... four years old, laughing, dancing. I made them watch it all over and over. And I told them, I said, this is my son that I want you to see. And this is how I want you to think of my son.
I told them, I said, I'm hearing all these crazy things that people think my son was into that he wasn't. So if they're thinking that, anybody can be thinking that, including you, I told them. And I don't want you to think of my son that way. Because then you won't work as hard.
And they just looked at me. They said, we've never had anyone do this before.
I was a little angry towards some of my neighbors. And I couldn't imagine with that many people that no one saw or heard anything.
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