Parkland shooting survivor Victoria Gonzalez gave a statement regarding her boyfriend, 17-year-old Joaquin Oliver, who was killed in the massacre.
She was wearing a yellow shirt with the words “Tu con balas, yo con bolas.” It was the same shirt, she told Cruz, that Oliver was wearing “the night before you killed him.”
The saying means, “You with bullets, I with balls,” in Spanish.
“Crazy enough, he knew what was coming,” she said of Oliver.
As a classmate of Cruz, she said that she was rooting for him.
“I felt like you needed someone or you needed something, and I could feel that,” she said. “I felt how alone you might have felt, maybe.”
Now, she said, she feels alone.
“I’m very isolated and I can’t make friends and I can’t build relationships because I’m looking over my shoulder, even emotionally,” she said.
“I wish you had more love in your heart,” she said.
