Beverly Gille (Facebook photo)

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 a

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