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Prop 57 looks astatine evidence-based rehabilitation and allows a justice to determine whether the convicted kid volition beryllium tried arsenic an adult.
Thursday, May 1, 2025 1:27PM
A grieving South Valley household is coping with the nonaccomplishment of their loved 1 successful a stabbing. Now, they're questioning whether they'll spot justice.
HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- An bare bed, trophies and medals connected the partition -- 17-year-old Lorenzo Sanchez's country wherever helium near it.
"Lorenzo was a precise blessed kid, precise athletic. His grin was conscionable warming. He was a precise humble kid," says Julia Sanchez, Lorenzo's mother.
His grin was conscionable warming. He was a precise humble kid.
Julia Sanchez, parent of Lorenzo
Lorenzo was retired buying with his household connected Saturday erstwhile helium was approached by a radical of 5 kids ages 11 to 15.
Investigators accidental an statement began, but Sanchez walked away. That's erstwhile constabulary accidental a 15-year-old came up from down and stabbed him successful the backmost of the neck.
"He did it with the volition of sidesplitting him due to the fact that they did it close wherever they were going to kill. They went consecutive to wherever they're going to termination him with conscionable 1 stab," says Sanchez.
A inferior astatine Corcoran High School, helium ran way and played football. He was named jock of the twelvemonth for the school, conscionable a week earlier helium was killed.
Lorezno was a straight-A pupil with the extremity of attending Fresno State.
"He was a tiny lad with large dreams. He was going to get there. He had already applied for college. His aboriginal was agleam for his age," says Sanchez.
He was a tiny lad with large dreams. He was going to get there.
Julia Sanchez, parent of Lorenzo
Julia faced her son's alleged slayer successful tribunal Wednesday. She described him arsenic being numb and showing nary remorse.
"I couldn't judge what I was seeing. He was a small boy, a small lad with a manus of a murderer," says Sanchez.
Julia is present calling for justice. She fears her son's slayer could beryllium released erstwhile helium turns 25 nether Proposition 57 successful California, which focuses connected evidence-based rehabilitation and allows a justice to determine whether the convicted kid volition beryllium tried arsenic an adult.
Julia says that wouldn't beryllium justice, and she doesn't privation this to hap to immoderate different mother.
"I noticed that transgression has gone up, and my lad is not the lone victim. It's inactive happening. If we don't travel together, it's conscionable going to support connected happening," says Sanchez.
If we don't travel together, it's conscionable going to support connected happening.
Julia Sanchez, parent of Lorenzo
The household has acceptable up a GoFundMe.
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