A grieving SoCal mother says the killer of her 14-year-old son will go free – thanks to a woke criminal justice law backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Maria Gill, whose football star son Jeremy Rosales, nicknamed “Tank,”was gunned downnear the family’s Victorville home in January, told The Post that one of her boy’s alleged assailants, aged 16, will be released by the time he’s 25 underCalifornia’s Proposition 57.
“Proposition 57 –that’s all Gavin Newsom,” said Gill, a retail worker who last saw her son on the morning of Jan. 16, the day he wasshot and killed. “It’s affecting us victims and families.”
Backed by then-Lt. Gov. Newsom and signed into law in 2018 by then-Gov. Jerry Brown, Proposition 57 aimed to reduce the state’s prison population in part by eliminating the ability of local prosecutors to try juveniles as adults.
Instead, prosecutors operating under the controversial law must seek a hearing for a jurisdiction change and prove that the accused criminal can’t be rehabilitated in a juvenile corrections setting.
Gill said her son, the Oak Hills High School standout lineman, was lured to Mojave Vista Park in Victorville after dinner on a Friday night.
The popular hangout spot with local kids less than a mile from their house frequently hosted football practices, she said.
But for reasons that remain a mystery, that night Jeremy was shot near the intersection of Glen Canyon Lane and Burwood Avenue in the residential area.
San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Deputies said they were called to the scene at about 8:21 p.m. and found the 14-year-old alive but badly wounded. He was rushed to a nearby hospital but later died, cops said.
San Bernardino detectives investigated the case and two weeks later arrested Abel Ramirez, 27, and an unnamed 16-year-old on murder charges for the killing of Rosales.
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