On April 8, 2009, Angel's pitcher Nick Adenhart, and two friends, Henry Pearson and Courtney Stewart, were killed in a collision with a minivan.  The driver of the minivan, Andrew Gallo, 22, was driving drunk; he had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit.  In their first public interview, the family of Andrew Gallo shed some light on how this happened.

"It was an accident," Gallo's mother, Sandra Sagahon, said. "He never meant to hurt anybody, ever."

"People think my son is a monster," says Thomas Gallo, Andrew's father and a real estate agent from San Gabriel, Calif. "He's not."

Andrew is the younger of two children, and lived in Baldwin Park, Calif., before Thomas and Sandra divorced when Andrew was 5.  According to his father, Andrew took the divorce especially hard. "I saw a lot of anger," Thomas Gallo said. "He was devastated."

Away from his friends and starting anew, Andrew found the move difficult, according to his mother. "Maybe he was lonely," Sagahon said.

"I didn't think he was out getting into trouble," Sagahon says. "It was an accident. It's not like he was a bad kid or a gang member."

"Those angels that [died] were good people," Sagahon said. "And so [is] my son. He's a wonderful kid."

[Sagahon said] "Would someone want to be in my shoes right now? I don't think so and I don't wish it upon anybody ... We don't want to be there either, and unfortunately, we were put here and left here for a reason for people to see, to react and think before they do."

It was an accident. He was devastated by his parents divorce 17 years ago. Maybe he was lonely. It's not like he was a gang member. My son is a wonderful kid.

There are different types of evil. Andrew Gallo was not the type of evil that acts purposefully to do harm to others. He is the type of evil that is so consumed with one's own selfish concerns that they do not care how their actions may affect the lives of others. This selfishness was born of the selfishness exhibited by his family: "Would someone want to be in my shoes right now?"

This evil was born of a family who has made excuse after excuse for what he has done, and no doubt made excuse after excuse for every mistake he ever made growing up.  Yes, he got drunk and killed three people with his car. BUT IT'S NOT LIKE HE WAS A GANG MEMBER.

Reading this interview made me feel ill.