Our Client Loses a Child,16 Year-Old Murderer Gets Life Without Parole: Who Wins?

Yesterday the murderer of our client’s son was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Eric Ellington shot Julian Soler numerous times while in the process of carjacking Julian and his friend Kennia Duran at a gas station.  Neither of the young people resisted, but Ellington killed Julian because “he didn’t look scared enough.” An accomplice yet to be tried killed Kennia. 3 years later the killer received his sentence.

We represented Julian’s mother Janine Diaz in a civil negligent security case against the business where the shootings took place. The Soler and Duran families have suffered the worst kind of loss imaginable, and have done so with dignity.

Now that Julian’s killer is going to prison for life, it begs the question: who wins by sending the killer away? One answer is that society does, because someone with so little regard for human life will no longer threaten the safety of the public. Another is that the families who lost their children do because there is some sense of justice.  No, it will never bring back these two young people, whose lives were out in front of them.  It will never erase the tears of Janine Soler that she has and will continue to shed when she thinks about her son.

We will continue to represent crime victims and their families to help improve security. By making late night gas stations safer we reduce the risk and frequency of such violent crimes.

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