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KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - After a 17-year-old was killed by a 15-year-old astatine the Hanford Mall implicit the weekend, Tulare Assemblywoman Alexandra Macedo says it's clip for a "complete reform" of California's transgression justness strategy to clasp juveniles accountable for crimes.
According to police, connected April 26, officers responded to the Hanford Mall astir 5:30 p.m. for aggregate calls of a idiosyncratic who was stabbed and appearing to beryllium unresponsive. It was reported that juveniles fled the scene.
Officers recovered the unfortunate extracurricular of Kohl's with a stab coiled to his neck. They attempted to render aid, but the unfortunate was pronounced deceased by EMS.
The household of the 17-year-old who was killed later identified him arsenic Lorenso Sanchez.
Detectives yet obtained footage and reported that a verbal statement had occurred wrong the promenade earlier Lorenso was stabbed from down by a 15-year-old suspect.
The 15-year-old was detained and arrested connected suspicion of murder. The 15-year-old appeared successful tribunal connected Wednesday for the archetypal clip since the stabbing and Lorenso's household is saying they privation change.
“He’s not being held responsible. And I would have, if helium was to get justice, that helium would, helium would get much justice. I would consciousness immoderate benignant of closure,” Lorenso's mother, Julia Sanchez, said.
Due to California's authorities laws, the 15-year-old volition not beryllium capable to beryllium tried successful big court, since lone teenagers 16 and up are eligible to beryllium tried arsenic an adult.
Macedo agrees and says it's clip for a "complete reform" erstwhile it comes to the transgression laws successful California.
"We've continued to h2o them down and weaken them," Macedo said. "We let children who are committing these crimes to judge there's nary consequences for their actions and adjacent if determination are consequences, they're not truly scary oregon atrocious capable to really deter this from happening."
Macedo says this is astir the sixth clip an lawsuit of juvenile transgression has been brought to her bureau since the 5 months she's been there.
She says she believes determination are times radical tin beryllium rehabilitated, but besides believes determination are truly atrocious people.
"There's besides truly atrocious radical who perpetrate heinous crimes that are children that bash not request to beryllium successful our nine committing these crimes again," Macedo said.
According to Macedo, aft talking to aggregate territory attorneys, the stories they shared astir the radical they person successful custody are what she says are "truly conscionable psychopaths" and "mentally deranged individuals."
She says those radical don't person the quality to beryllium rehabilitated and mentions that the state's existent laws are saying "all criminals that are minors are capable to person a alteration of heart."
Macedo says that is not the case.
"We're seeing them with repetition offenses. How galore much children are going to person to suffer their lives?" Macedo said.
Macedo says she volition beryllium warring for solutions to alteration the laws and has a "full commitment" to each victims to person policies that support them.
