Convicted 'Freeway Shooter' paroled over objections of Sacramento County District Attorney Ho, Gov. Newsom
One of Kyle Douglas Frank's victims was a mother with two minor children in the vehicle.
Even with the strenuous objects of Sacramento County District Attorney Thein Ho with support from Gov. Gavin Newsome, a previously issued parole of the so-called Freeway Shooter was reaffirmed on Tuesday.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Board of Parole Hearings reaffirmed its decision granted parole to inmate Kyle Douglas Frank (CDCR #AH1177) on April 10, 2024, after serving only 14 years of his 90-year prison sentence. After the April parole decision, the district attorney’s office submitted a letter to the Governor seeking intervention and a request for en banc review and rescission.
On July 19, 2024, Newsom sent the case back to the parole board for further review. On August 20, 2024, even after hearing from one of Frank's victims, the April decision was upheld.
“Despite the Governor intervening and opposition from the victims and our office, the Parole Board made a final decision to grant a violent inmate parole after serving just fifteen percent of his prison sentence,” Ho said in a statement issued this day. “This decision undermines the criminal justice system by overriding the 90-year sentence imposed in this case and places a dangerous inmate back into our community.”
Frank committed four separate freeway shootings in Sacramento County from August 22, 2009, to September 9, 2009. Each victim was either Hispanic or African American.
One of Frank's victims was a mother with two minor children in the vehicle. One of the children sustained a injury when a bullet grazed their leg.
On March 14, 2011, Frank was convicted after jury trial of eight counts of attempted murder. The jury also found the enhancements for personal use and discharge of a firearm to be true and was sentenced to an aggregate term of 90 years in state prison.
While incarcerated, Frank assaulted an African American inmate, and assaulted another inmate in a separate incident to align with the white prison gang.
