LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An impaired driver who killed a pregnant girl, realized his destiny Monday. After a mistrial in Could, a jury discovered Christopher Walker responsible on all expenses.
On Monday, a decide sentenced him to eight to 40 years in jail.
Las Vegas man discovered responsible in DUI crash that killed pregnant girl
In 2024, 21-year-old Suzie Chapel was a passenger in a BMW stopped on the facet of I-15 North. Chapel and her boyfriend, Isaiah Armstrong, have been ready for roadside help when Christopher Lee Walker hit their automobile.
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Monday, Walker was seen in handcuffs, going through households of these affected. Chapel’s Mother, Laura, in addition to her sons Adam and Sam, all stated they don’t really feel the punishment matches the crime.
“I feel for a repeat offender and the wreckage that he caused our family, and others, that his sentence should have been harsher,” Laura Chapel stated.
It is a subject the 8 Information Now Investigators spoke to Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill about final week. McMahill informed 8 Information Now deadly crashes are outpacing thir numbers from final 12 months. Over 100 individuals died inside Metro’s jurisdiction final 12 months, McMahill stated.
“We don’t think about traffic the way that we think about a homicide, for example, but you’re far for likely to die on our roadways here in Las Vegas than you are to be killed by another human being,” McMahill stated. “It’s terrible.”
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“To be up there, and look at him in his eyes, and tell him ‘I don’t forgive you actually, you did a horrible thing,’ and he didn’t receive it because his face was down, and that’s for him, he has eight years to think about it,” Adam Chapel, Suzie’s brother stated.
Isaiah Armstrong, who survived the crash, additionally offered a sufferer impression assertion in court docket. Armstrong defined for him, life won’t ever be the identical.
“I’m kind of working on trying to forgive and forgive and forgive,” Armstrong stated. “It’s frustrating, I’m still dealing with a lot, just emotionally, mentally.”
Chapel was pregnant with Armstrong’s child on the time of the crash. She additionally already had one other youngster, who her household is now serving to to boost.
“We had so many dreams and aspirations,” Armstrong stated, as he and his dad and mom wore attire with Suzie’s face, a visual tribute to her reminiscence.
Armstrong’s dad and mom additionally delivered impression statements. Their foremost message after the sentencing was calling for stronger penalties for DUI’s.
“We can sit here and cry at these court appearances, and all of our loved ones can get killed by these drunk drivers, but nothing is being done,” stated Candi Items, mother of Isaiah Armstrong. “I feel like we need to vote better, we need to put different judges in office, and we need to change the laws, because that’s the only way this will change.”
Walker had a earlier DUI conviction in 2018. For this one, he can be eligible for parole in lower than eight years, together with his credit score for time served.
