Mason Varela saw good in everyone. She even saw good in the man who became her killer. This is how relatives tearfully remembered Varela after a Dallas County...
“I hope you, too, will not be able to take that scream out of your head, and I hope that scream will drive you insane,” Pintor said to Gonzalez.“There is a Satan and you allowed him to enter your mind,” Pintor said. “I pray that God will touch your heart.”Varela cared for Gonzalez and wanted to focus on the good in him even when he was jealous, controlling and manipulative, friends and family said. She was finally moving forward after ending the relationship and seemed happy, they said.
“She was just starting to see what the real world was like,” said her cousin Mackenzie Garcia, who cried as she spoke. Gonzalez looked down to his lap as her loved ones spoke, except for when Varela’s mother asked him to look at her and when her father pointed to him and made a motion to look at him. Varela’s father did not address Gonzalez directly, but stood next to his sister as she spoke.
Gonzalez wanted to speak and apologize for the pain he caused, said his lawyer Robert Hernandez. Defendants typically don’t speak during victim impact statements. It is a time for those affected by crimes to speak to the convicted person. “His plea today shows that he accepts full responsibility for his actions. I imagine he will be remorseful for the rest of his life,” Hernandez said.
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