Blue State Prosecutor Gives Unlicensed Illegal Immigrant Probation For Causing Deadly Car Wreck

A Colorado prosecutor granted probation to a teenaged illegal migrant who fatally struck a young woman while driving without a license in an uninsured vehicle taken from his mother, CBS News reported.

Twenty-four-year-old Kaitlyn Weaver was killed in July 2024 in Aurora, Colorado, after being struck by a 15-year-old illegal migrant, CBS reported on Tuesday. The defendant, whose name cannot be disclosed due to state law, was speeding through a residential neighborhood, reportedly driving at 90 mph in a 45 mph zone when he crashed into the victim’s car.

The prosecutor had initially promised to pursue the maximum sentence of two years in youth corrections without any plea deal, according to CBS. However, when the current district attorney, Amy Padden, took over, the suspect was offered two years of probation in exchange for a guilty plea.

“Why the change? If he had taken a firearm and recklessly just shot it and killed someone, this would be a different case. They would be pushing it completely differently,” the victim’s father, John Weaver, expressed to CBS. “There’s no deterrence.”

Arapahoe County Assistant District Attorney Ryan Brackley defended the decision to CBS, saying, that “the negotiated sentence acknowledges the seriousness of this preventable tragedy.”

However, the victim’s family said the prosecutor didn’t speak at the sentencing, and the defendant never apologized for the crime, according to the outlet. Additionally, the family will not receive any restitution for their daughter’s nearly $1 million in medical bills.

“🛂Immigration and the criminal justice system and all these things landed together one day in Aurora and now I sit here today without a daughter,” John Weaver said to CBS.