patrick gaskill. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> star of the show. >> yeah. >> fabian gomez. [ applauserdero love. [ applause ] brandon mulvaney. [ applause ] all together you may now shift your tassels to the left by signifying conferral of degrees, please join me in congratulating the graduating class. [ applause ] >> i'm real glad you came. >> oh, yeah. wouldn't miss it. wouldn't miss it. >> missed you. >> first time i accomplished something. over 12 years. last time i walked on a stage was in eighth grade. >> how are you today? [ speaking spanish ] >> i've told him before, it's >> first time i accomplished something. over 12 years. last time i walked on a stage was in eighth grade. >> how are you today? [ speaking spanish ] >> i've told him before, it's like, you know i think about him all the time and part of me is here with him. you know, i don't know if he is suffering but i am. >> i think about him all the time. >> this is the best part, though. this right here. >> yep. >> this is the best part. >>> coming up, patrick gaskill relocates. and chas harper and dave carr get bittersw

but gaskill's cellmate, fabian gomez, is serving 40 years for taking a life. >> i feel pain because ihings out there. that destroyed lots of families, including my own. i lived the life of a thug. all i did was party and sell drugs. >> gomez's crime took place on new year's eve when he says he was cleaning his gun. >> new year's, of course, you want to shoot your gun for new year's. >> gomez admits he had been cheating on his girlfriend and says that night she confronted him on it. >> we got in a really bad argument. not physical, verbal, but in the instance of the argument something happened where the gun went off. >> gomez's girlfriend was hit in the face. >> she was -- she fell to the floor. she was bleeding. i called 911 and the police came and they pulled me to the side. you know, everything started happening. everything started happening like i was in the dream. >> his girlfriend was rushed to the hospital, but she wasn't the only one fighting for her life. >> she was pregnant. she was going to be a month due when it happened. >> doctors saved the baby, a girl who is now being r