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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A convicted slayer and erstwhile Fresno State teaching adjunct is retired connected parole.
In April 2024, a judge sentenced Lisa Spoors to 5 years in situation for hitting and killing 15-year-old Rashad Al-Hakim Jr.
Spoors was released connected June 22, 2025.
Rashad’s mom, Ragina Bell, says she has a batch of questions for the DA’s office.
“You guys said she got 5 years. Like, it hasn't adjacent been a afloat three,” Bell said.
The DA’s bureau declined YourCentralValley.com’s petition for comment.
Bell says Rashad’s begetter reached retired to her connected the Fourth of July to archer her helium got a substance announcing Spoors’ release.
She says nary 1 from the situation oregon the DA’s bureau ever contacted her personally.
“Nothing that happened makes consciousness the mode things went,” Bell said. “Nothing made consciousness to me. And I'm expected to conscionable beryllium good with it due to the fact that that's the law?”
Spoors deed and killed Rashad successful October of 2022 portion helium was riding his motorcycle adjacent Hoover High School.
Spoors did not crook themself successful until aft the holidays, though.
“She didn't adjacent get arrested. If I were to deed idiosyncratic and I was connected drugs, nary substance what benignant of cause they were, I would person been arrested that day,” Bell said.
Spoors was primitively charged with driving nether the influence, deed and tally and murder.
However, a plea woody reduced the charges to vehicular manslaughter portion intoxicated and deed and tally causing death.
They received a five-year sentence, but clip credits brought it down to little than three.
“I don't privation to spell extracurricular due to the fact that I don't privation to spot her,” Bell said.
Bell says, now, the condemnation is reversed. Spoors’ state has go her prison.
“A person of excavation already ran into her astatine a market store conscionable randomly shopping,” Bell said. “So since I recovered out, I person been isolating myself to the house.”
She says the isolation won’t past forever, though. For her different son’s sake, she indispensable spell on.
