Quebec mom devastated after man who killed her daughter in hit-and-run gets out after 5 months
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A Montreal-area mother is furious with Quebec's justice system because the man who killed her 25-year-old daughter in a 2022 hit-and-run was released from jail after only serving one-sixth of his sentence behind bars.
A Montreal-area mother is furious with Quebec's justice system because the man who killed her 25-year-old daughter in a 2022 hit-and-run was released from jail after only serving one-sixth of his sentence behind bars.
To add salt to the wound, she says she only found out he was released more than a week after he got out.
In an interview with CTV News on Monday, Éliane Dell said she felt "destroyed, mad, stressed, angry" about the decision.
"I can't understand that he killed my child, then not even five months later he's already released," she said.
Her daughter, Clarissa St-Armand Dell, was walking home from the bar shortly before 4:30 a.m. on June 24, 2022, when a vehicle crashed into her at the intersection of Rome Boulevard and Lautrec Street in Brossard, on Montreal's South Shore. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two years later, Dell said waking up every day is a struggle. She had her daughter at 20 years old and had to raise her as a single mother. The bond they shared was unbreakable.
"We were always, always, always together. Always," she said through tears.
