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Survival: ‘1 don’t want to hate him... but I won’t forget’.
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“I knew he didn’t like the
police,” he said.
Because of Lloyd’s influ-
ence, Al said two of his broth-
ers are dead and one is in
prison.
“My dad is very cunning,
very intelligent, very charm-
ing,” he said.
His father wrote him long
letters. They contained many
references to Bible scriptures
and weapons, Al said. He last
saw his father in when
‘ he was given a sentence of
death, before that sentence
was dropped.
“1 don’t think the goVern-
ment has the right to take
anyone’s life, including my
dad’s,” Al said.
“I don’t want to hate him
I forgive him, but I won’t for—
get what he did.”
Instead of being raised by
his father, Al had a very dif—
ferent role model in Ricardo.
“They are completely dif-
ferent,” Debra said. “Ricardo
had a heart of gold, and he
helped people all day long
He wouldn’t turn anyone
away.”
Al agrees. “They’re almost
opposites Lloyd has hurt
kids, Ricardo helped kids,” he
said.
Yet they began life under
different circumstances. Lloyd
was raised with a supportive
family with wealth while ‘Ri-
cardo came from poverty, Al
From left, Ricardo del Bosque, Debra del Bosque, Al Barrus'and Verenice
Barrus pose after the Barrus wedding in
Debra, who works in the kitchen at the Mason County Senior Activities
Center, and her son Al, a Shelton High
School graduate, will be featured Saturday night on the NBC show
“Dateline” in a profile of convicted murderer Lloyd
Barrus, Al’s father and Debra’s ex-husband. Courtesy photo
said.
“He was born on a dirt floor
in Mexico He had gunfights
with cartels. He got shot.”
After graduating from
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the National Guard and be-
came a part—time public affairs
soldier. In he was de-
ployed to Iraq, Where he wrote
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