Victim impact statement

Sinee the Crime On July 16, 2012 when my son Joshua Yasay was shot andhad dledr FX life had Changed. It?is3difficult to explain my feelings,I was shocked from the horrible newsithat I could not talk to otherpeople or to my husband. 7" . MY feelings have changed in my life since the crime. I do not feelsafe anymore when I surrounded by other people that I do not know. Ifeel as if something bad may happen.to me if I go out.The only people I can relate to are my family members that are goingthrough this rough patch as I am. Even when the friends of my son tellme how much they miss him, I still do not think they understand thefeeling of losing a son.The crime has affected my ability to enjoy activities because eventaking my youngest son to the park, terrifies me because I am afraidthat he may get hurt by someone out there.The crime has affected my personal safety and the safety of thosearound me because my family is also going through this loss. They feelas if every person out there is going to hurt them. They fear thatsomeone might do what had happened to Joshua.The crime did cause me to change my eating and sleeping patterns. Idid not eat regularly which meant I did not even for days sometimes.My sleeping patterns were not regular either. I would dream about whathad happened to my son and then wake up to face reality. I would wakeup crying because I knew he wasn't there anymore.The crime affected my general well?being because it changed me as aperson. I did not think something like that could ever happen to anamazing individual.I A?m Sc) lb? . -1177? err}5/may1 2 ?4 .