Esteban Saidi's brother Erick Saidi (left) and sister weep in court as they listen to Ricky Angilau as he expresses his remorse for killing their brother. Ricky Angilau, who was 16-years-old when he fired into a crowd during a fight, killing an onlooker, was sentenced to up to 5 years in prison before 3rd District Judge William Barrett on Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Angilau was charged as a juvenile for shooting and killing a Kearns High classmate, 16-year-old Esteban Saidi, on Jan. 21, 2009.
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — Esteban Saidi was not a gang member. He was just a 16-year-old kid who had gathered with several of his Kearns High School classmates to watch a fight.
Neither he nor anyone else had any way of knowing that he would die doing so.
"My brother was my hero," Erick Saidi said Tuesday. "I looked up to him. ... I thought nothing would be able to harm him. You could say he was Superman to me."
Ricky Angilau, 19, was also just a 16-year-old kid when he fired the gun that killed Saidi.
"Youth today seem to do a lot of things out of the spur of the moment — anger, that type of stuff," said Saidi's mother, Patricia Salceda-Garcia. "It's not that easy to just take a weapon and do whatever you want in the spur of the moment, because not only do you destroy one life, you destroy the lives of all the people around you."
But the mother later asked to speak a second time and offered to forgive the boy who shot her son.
The courtroom was awash in tears Tuesday as Angilau was ordered to serve up to five years in prison for manslaughter, a third-degree felony. Though he was originally charged with murder, a first-degree felony, the charge was reduced as part of a plea agreement.
Angilau took some time to compose himself before addressing the court and Saidi's family. Over and over again, he apologized for what he had done.
"I'm ready to face whatever consequences I've got to face," he said. "I'm sorry. I wish I could take it all back. ... This has been stressful on me. I deserve it. I know I can't fix anything with my words. I can stand here and say sorry as much as I want to and it won't fix anything. I just want to let the Saidi family know I mean to make amends."
The shooting occurred following a fistfight between Angilau and another Kearns High student on Jan. 21, 2009. Angilau, who had taken a gun to school, fired it into the air after the fight, causing a crowd that had gathered to flee. He then fired two additional shots in the direction of the crowd, but witnesses said the shots were aimed more up in the air than at any specific person.
Still, Saidi was hit and killed.
"It's very clear he did not intend to shoot or kill or injure the victim in this case," defense attorney Ron Yengich said. "(But) there was a death and that death needs and requires a punishment."
Despite initial reports that the shooting may have been gang-related, prosecutor Patricia Cassell clarified that Saidi was not a member of any gang.
19 Sep, 2012
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Source: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865562677/Mother-forgives-man-who-killed-her-son-tells-him-to-go-forward.html
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