On Friday, Shane Stevenson, the lawyer who hit 16-year-old Chloe Vischer with his truck and left the Edmonton scene in April 2018, is being released from custody.
The fatal collision occurred as Chloe was walking home in a marked crosswalk at Kingsway and Tower Road.
Several vehicles stopped to let her cross, but Stevenson rammed Chloe through the crosswalk and kept running.
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An off-duty police officer who had witnessed the crime gave chase, eventually arresting Stevenson.
The court heard that Stevenson’s blood alcohol content was 0.17, almost twice the legal limit of 0.08.
After pleading guilty to death by impaired driving, Stevenson was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
Chloe’s mother, Holly Lussier, said, “This is incommensurable with the loss of human life and the painful ordeal the victims and their families are going through.”
But after serving two-thirds of that sentence, he becomes eligible for statutory release on Friday.
Lussier said, “They go out tomorrow and go back to their lives, go back to their families, go back to whatever their future holds.”
“My daughter will never get away with this. My daughter will never get an opportunity to think about the future.”
Instead of walking the stage in her high school graduation dress, Chloe was buried in it.
His family wants people who drink and drive to consider that the next time they are behind the wheel.
“That’s the consequence. It’s not losing your license for a year, it’s not paying a fine,” said Michael Wiecher, Chloe’s father.
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They feel that Canada’s justice system is too lenient towards drunk drivers.
Michael said, “If Chloe’s death is anything to go by, I would like to see a change in sentencing and how society views bad driving.”
Last summer, Chloe’s mother took that fight to Ottawa, presenting it to the Justice Committee in Parliament.
“We need these laws to represent and reflect the seriousness of the crime. We need to keep demanding from our elected officials. We need to keep demanding that change,” she said.
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“I hope she knows I do this for her,” Lucier said.
“I carry him with me in everything I do. Every day, every moment. There isn’t a day that goes by that I’m not thinking about him and what I can do to try and make a difference for someone else. I hope she knows this.
As part of his sentence, Stevenson will now be banned from driving for five years.
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