Less than a year after being released from prison early for a murder conviction thanks to Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon's soft-on-crime policies, 25-year-old Denmonne Lee has been charged with another killing.
According to another detail revealed during the trial, Lee also threatened to shoot his ex-girlfriend in a video rap he sent to her on her cell phone shortly after the incident for "Snitching." Lee was initially charged as an adult, but as his case was winding its way through the court system in 2020, Gascon took office following a campaign cash infusion from liberal megadonor George Soros.
One of the first policies Gascon implemented was a blanket ban on trying minors as adults - good news for Lee.
Michelle Brace, Ruh's widow, has blasted Gascon for refusing to try Lee as an adult for that first murder, which likely would have meant he would still be behind bars.
"Gascon is just letting all these criminals out and they just keep doing one crime after the other," Olga Garcia, Santana's mother, told a local Fox News affiliate at the time.
Gascon's office initially charged Gallegos with homicide, threatening to send the student to jail for an act of self-defense, only dropping the charges after extensive public backlash.
While the families of the victims of Gascon's second chance killers will never get their loved one's back, they may take some solace knowing that voters have a chance to hold Gascon accountable and boot him from office in just a few months' time.
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