Beverly Gille, the mother of Bradford Gille, 42, who is accused of stabbing and wounding 11 people at a Walmart near Traverse City on July 26, spoke with the Detroit News about her love for her son, his serious mental health issues, and her compassion for the victims.
"I was so compassionate to those poor people. How fast it happened, you know?" Gille told Jennifer Chambers of the Detroit News in an interview at her Roscommon County home in northern Michigan last week. "And then I'm like, that's my son. I brought him into the world. I love him. So I have to deal with that, you know?"
"I am terribly sorry that happened. … I envision the fear in these people, and I'm so, so sorry. I'm his mommy. I'm his mother. I love him, and I'm caught between a rock and a hard place, you know? I mean, it's wrong, it's just wrong. It's wrong. The mental health thing has been dropped, and this is what we're going to continue having until they resolve it."
She said that starting at age 14, she and her late husband dealt with their son's mental health issues and took him to community mental health services for supervision and help when he stopped taking his medication.
On Friday, a judge declared her son unfit to stand trial on a count of terrorism and 11 counts of assault with intent to murder. Gille continues to undergo treatment at the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Saline.
Eight of the 11 victims have been released from the hospital.
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