Family and friends of an 81-year-old Tempe, Arizona man, who police say was brutally killed in Lynchburg this past weekend, spoke out about the case and the man they loved on Wednesday.
In an interview with our NBC affiliate KPNX, George Baker III's son Gregg said the last words that George shared with his granddaughter at her wedding last Saturday, were how beautiful she looked.
As Baker went back to the reception, police say two 16-year-olds and a 13-year-old attacked, and ended up killing him. Lynchburg investigators called Baker's death a "random act of violence."
WSLS learned on Wednesday that state law mandates the two 16-year-olds will be tried as adults, because they've been charged with murder.
In court documents, officers say witnesses told them that one of the 16-year-olds said he would hit the first person he saw, to impress some girls he was with. Another witness claims to have seen a young man kick Baker in the face, after he was already on the ground.
"He was walking, minding his own business ... He was at the wrong place at the wrong time," Mike Cole, a friend of Baker, told KPNX.
"George didn't deserve to go the way he did," said Baker's friend Dale Boone. "God bless those boys, it was a bad decision."
Gregg Baker said he is not thinking about revenge, but his faith. "I don't want retribution. I want God to touch their lives," he told KPNX.
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