A 15-year-old undocumented immigrant, without a driver’s license and insurance, was driving his mother’s Jeep at 90 mph in a residential area when he struck and killed a young woman, has been released from custody with two years of probation and a requirement to complete 100 hours of community service.

Kaitlyn Weaver’s Volkswagen was left in ruins at an Aurora, Colorado intersection after the crash on July 8, 2024.

The impact crushed the driver’s side of the car. Emergency responders worked swiftly to free 24-year-old Kaitlyn from the wreck. She remained on life support for two days, allowing her parents time to donate her organs.

Police charged the teen responsible with vehicular homicide with Kaitlyn’s family being told by the Arapahoe County District Attorney’s Office that there would be no plea deal.

But then progressive district attorney Amy Padden was elected, stunning the Weaver’s with news that her office would offer the killer probation.    

Kaitlyn, a University of Colorado psychology graduate and drug rehab worker, was driving through Aurora when she stopped at a four-way intersection. 

While waiting at a stop sign and chatting on speakerphone with her boyfriend, she was T-boned at deadly speed by a Jeep Cherokee driven by the Colombian national,  still unnamed due to juvenile privacy laws.

‘It was an instantaneous death,’ her father, John Weaver, told Fox News. ‘She didn’t even see him coming.

‘She spent her life trying to help people. She was an amazing human being,’ he added.

‘They said by doing two years’ probation, that’s probably more than the judge would give if he pleaded guilty,’ Weaver recalled as he discussed the light sentence. 

‘You don’t have to participate in a bad system. If the judge wanted to sentence him to less, that’s the judge’s issue. But by offering this plea, now you’re part of the problem.’

The unlicensed and uninsured teenage driver had taken his mother’s Jeep without permission and was racing other teens through residential streets.  

The teen promised prosecutors he would attend school and avoid future legal trouble in exchange for no jail time and has since applied for asylum in the United States.

Matthew Durkin, an attorney for the Weaver family, called the plea deal ‘abhorrent.’

‘There’s no deterrence. If he had taken a firearm and recklessly just shot it and killed someone, this would be a different case. They would be pushing it completely differently,’ John Weaver said.

Instead, the teen’s immigration status, age, and the progressive leanings of the DA’s office appear to have shielded him from real consequences.

‘We had a collision where the immigration system and the criminal justice system collided, and now my daughter’s dead,’ John added.

Colorado law protects the identities of minors in criminal court and the illegal immigrant who took Kaitlyn’s life has never been publicly named nor had his mugshot released. 

Thanks to the Arapahoe County judge, he remains shielded from public view.

Furthermore, the court allowed him to file for asylum instead of enforcing deportation proceedings.

Woke, progressive District Attorney Amy Padden, who has been photographed with Kamala Harris and Georgia’s Stacey Abrams, has been under fire since the plea deal became public. 

Critics point to her cozy ties with top Democrats and her record of pushing juvenile justice reform as a reason she went soft on a case that demanded hard accountability.

In a statement, Arapahoe County Assistant DA Ryan Brackley stated: ‘We unequivocally condemn such reckless and unlawful behavior, which had devastating and irreversible results… No legal outcome can truly make up for the profound loss and void Kaitlyn’s loved ones will live with permanently.’

Padden also addressed the case on Facebook with a lecture about speeding. 

‘We acknowledge Kaitlyn Weaver’s death was the direct result of a crash caused by an unlicensed teenager driving at nearly twice the posted speed limit,’ she wrote.

‘This tragic loss is a powerful reminder that it is not just alcohol or drug impaired driving that takes lives. Driving at dangerous speeds has deadly consequences too.’ 

Kaitlyn Weaver had dedicated her life to helping people –  first at a suicide hotline, then at a drug rehabilitation center in Aurora.

‘She was really trying to make a difference in their lives every day,’ dad, John, said.

‘Immigration and the criminal justice system and all these things landed together one day in Aurora,’ he mourned. ‘Now I sit here today without a daughter.’