( CNN ) -- The son of an 81-year-old man who was fatally beaten Sunday after attending his granddaughter 's wedding in Lynchburg , Virginia , said he holds no animosity toward the three teenagers who are being held as suspects . `` I do n't want retribution , I want redemption , '' Gregg Baker said about the killing of his father , George Baker . `` I want God to reach out and touch those young men and change their lives , '' the younger Baker said in an interview with CNN affiliate WDBJ . George Baker , a retired salesman , had traveled from his home in Tempe , Arizona , to Lynchburg in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains for the wedding , said his son , the father of the bride . `` Several times at the reception , my daughter coaxed him out on the dance floor and I saw them one time hugging and I overheard him tell her how beautiful she looked , how happy he was for she and her husband and ( how he ) enjoyed the wedding service immensely , '' Gregg Baker told HLN 's `` Prime News '' Thursday . He added that his father spoke that night with the pastor , telling him , `` If I die tonight , I die a happy man . '' After the ceremony , the patriarch was walking down Main Street toward a restaurant where the reception was to be held when he was attacked by the three boys in what they told police was an attempt to impress some girls , Gregg Baker said . The elderly victim was taken to a hospital , where he died Monday morning , police said . Two 16-year-old boys and a 13-year-old boy have been charged in the killing . `` Really , it 's difficult to get your hands around this and try to rationalize this type of behavior , '' said Lynchburg Police Capt . Todd Swisher . `` Three individuals brutally assault a defenseless person , and that 's what happened . '' Baker family spokesman Andy Hill called the incident `` a wake-up call for everybody out there to really pay attention to your children , let them understand that there are a lot of second- and third-order consequences for acts like this , a lot of people get hurt . '' Under Virginia law , the 13-year-old can not be tried as an adult , but the 16-year-olds will be tried as adults , said criminal justice attorney Jennifer Bonjean .
` ` I want you to reach out and touch those young men , '' son of a man ' . ` ` If I die tonight , I die a happy man , '' the victim says hours before his execution . Two teenage boys are charged in the killing .