She said she instantly forgave him “with my heart.”“He let me live,” Lisa Louis, 45, wrote. A photo of a handwritten statement that Louis wrote was posted on Facebook. “Fear breeds anger, anger breeds hate, hate breeds suffering,” Louis wrote. “I never took my eyes off his eyes, something happened, I saw pain, he felt lost,” Louis wrote. Sanford and his wife did not regularly attend the church, Combs said, but had held an event there 10 years ago to raise money for the boy’s medical care.