Tuesday, a local Jamestown, N.C. teen will receive a scholarship from an unlikely source.
Death row inmates want to help 19-year-old Zach Osborne become a police officer.
When Zach Osborne wrote about forgiveness to the editors of "Compassion", an inmate run publication, he wrote about more than just the virtuous act. The college sophomore penned his family's tragic life story.
When he was six-years-old his sister Natalie Osborne disappeared. He never saw his four-year-old sister, again. The man eventually convicted of her rape and murder was Jeffrey Kandies, the boyfriend of Osborne's mother. Zach Osborne says in the essay he shared how he has forgiven his sister's killer.
"It was pretty tough writing it but I did it I turned it in," he said.
The inmates on death row awarded Zach's courage with a $5,000 scholarship to study criminal justice at East Carolina University. He is the seventh recipient of the award. The publication the inmates run is overseen by a parish in Ohio to help send murdered victims' family members to college.