During a self-described ‘walk of shame’ statement that seems more self-serving than apologetic, a 550 pound murder suspect shockingly declares love.

“I am sorry I took your world away from you Dawan. That was not my intent,” 39-year-old Dameon L. Wesley says into a WHIO-TV camera. “Love you with all of my heart. I am still in love with you. I guess God do get his justice and that’s why I am right here, right now. “

Police say Wesley, a convicted murder recently released from prison, on Sunday fired multiple shots into the head of 13-year-old Briona Rodgers , the daughter of Dawan Culpepper — the woman the suspect claims to love so much.

Family members say Wesley may have been in a conflict with Culpepper before shooting her daughter.

He also allegedly shot Culpepper’s niece Alonta Culpepper, 13, and a student at Wogaman School.

Briona died. Alonta is clinging on to life.

Wesley fled the area Sunday and was captured Monday night after a car crash and manhunt.

Watch - Man connected to teen’s death speaks

In the video, Wesley says “I made some choices that I can’t take back, some life choices I can’t take back.”

Life choices?

Buying an automatic or stick shift is a life choice.

Gunning down two little girls - if that is what Wesley was referring to in his statement - is far from that.

It is cold. It is callous. It is evil.

A family member told a Dayton Daily News reporter that Dawan Culpepper and Wesley had been arguing in the days leading up to the shootings.

“She didn’t want to be with him anymore, basically and she was just trying to get away from him,” Tanya Horton, Briona Rodgers’ aunt, said.

Patti Schwarztrauber, executive director of Artemis, a domestic violence center, said 75 percent of domestic violence related murders occur when the woman is trying to leave or break off the relationship with her abuser.

“It is one person trying to apply power and control on the other,” she said. “When one level of power is not working, it escalates.”

Schwarztrauber said Wesley’s statements seem almost textbook.

They seem to justify his actions.

“It seems that batterers tend to minimize their responsibility,” Schwarztrauber said. “He’s minimizing it.”

She said batterers often blame the victim or deny they are really at fault.

Wesley blamed life choices.

Schwarztrauber urged those leaving abusive relationships to get help in devising a plan. Artemis’ hotline, (937) 222-7233, is opened 24 hours a day.

One of Wesley’s last sentences show that he is small, despite his size.

“It is still good guys up there in the joint that deserve their freedom,” he said. “I am just not one of them, I guess.”

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