The mother of a US Army veteran among seven people killed in the latest Texas mass shooting said that she has found the strength to forgive gunman Seth Ator.

“Yes, I forgive him,” Mary Brown told ABC affiliate KTXS-12 of the man who snuffed out the life of her war-hero son, Afghanistan veteran Kameron Brown.

“He had to go fight in a war and come back here to be killed senselessly,” Brown told the station. “It’s so unfair.”

Apparently already tightly wound over getting fired from his trucking job, Ator snapped when he was pulled over for a minor traffic infraction along a stretch of I-20 outside Midland on Saturday afternoon.

He shot and wounded one of the troopers who tried to pull him over, then floored it toward Odessa, firing indiscriminately with his AR-style rifle at motorists and pedestrians along his way.

By the time he was shot dead by cops in the parking lot of an Odessa movie theater, Ator, 36, had killed seven people and wounded another 25.

Among the deceased victims was Brown, who also left behind an older brother.

“You were a hero to me and this world. You were somebody I looked up to even though you were my younger brother,” said Carlton Brown, when asked by NBC affiliate KTAB what he wished he still had a chance to say to his brother.

“I love him.”

As the family plans Brown’s funeral, Mary Brown told KTXS that mementos of her slain son are all she has left.

“That’s all I have now. The pictures and the memories,” said Mary Brown. “And thank God no one can take that away.”