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A Texas man vowed to forgive whoever killed most of his family. Then he learned it was his son.

Rage and faith were at war inside Kent Whitaker as he lay in a hospital bed with a 9mm bullet hole six inches from his heart.

It was December 2003, and the pillars of the Houston-area man's life had just been ripped down. A husband of 28 years, now he was a widower. A father of two college-age boys, one was dead while the other was recovering from his own gunshot wound. A man of faith, he was burning at God for letting tragedy strike.

His anger tightened specifically around the unknown shooter who had ambushed the four as they came home from a family dinner.