‘Drive Sober’: Mother Has Strong Plea After Drunk Driver Convicted In Son’s Death

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YUBA CITY (CBS13) – A assemblage recovered a Yuba City pistillate blameworthy aft a drunken deed and tally that killed a 13-year-old boy. Although relieved justness has been served, the teen’s parent spoke with CBS13 arsenic the household is inactive understandably heartbroken.

“Everywhere helium went everybody knows him. He was conscionable a boisterous, energetic kid. He was conscionable afloat of life, you know? He filled up a shot stadium with his energy,” said Tara Repka Flores. “We miss him. We miss him truthful overmuch and it’s decidedly not a just happening that happened.”

She’s intelligibly a arrogant Mom, Repka Flores inactive beams talking astir her lad Alec, but that boisterous property and large grin were taken truthful unexpectedly.

“He was lone 13 and helium had his full beingness to unrecorded and helium lone got those abbreviated 13 years. People consciousness sorrow for us, but I consciousness sorrow for Alec due to the fact that helium didn’t get each the experiences helium was expected to get, you know?” said Flores.

In October 2019, Constance Addison drove into Alec portion helium was walking to schoolhouse and past took off. Investigators discovered that Addison was drunk and driving with her 3 children successful the car.

“It’s hard to judge that the parent of immoderate different kids astatine schoolhouse killed my lad walking to school,” said Repka Flores. “I privation that she had done thing else.”

Addison initially pleaded not guilty, but prosecutors accidental her humor intoxicant level .24, 3 times the ineligible limit. A assemblage Friday recovered her blameworthy connected each counts, including second-degree murder.

“Every time I aftermath up and I benignant of instrumentality a abbreviated enactment with the realization each greeting that Alec is gone and the satellite doesn’t consciousness rather close without him,” said Repka Flores.

A lad with a brushed bosom for the underdog, Tara says Alec would’ve wanted this to beryllium a learning acquisition for everyone.

“People speech astir not drinking and driving but my connection to radical is to thrust sober. Not to thrust nether .08, but thrust sober,” said Repka Flores. “You cognize there’s an bare spot astatine the table. We beryllium down astatine a edifice and you get seated astatine a array for 4 and we should beryllium 4 and we’re lone 3 now. It’s sad.”

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Addison was besides convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter portion intoxicated, hit-and-run resulting successful decease and misdemeanor kid endangerment since her kids were successful the car. Her sentencing is acceptable for October 1.