A 24-year-old woman in the United States has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree negligent homicide in the killing of a man she said had trafficked her as a teenager. CNNChristul Kizer was sentenced on Monday. She will also serve five years of parole. She must submit a DNA sample to authorities and attend a restitution hearing later. “That is 570 days less than the 11-year sentence she served awaiting trial,” Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley told the outlet.
Ms Kizer shot Randall Voller, 34, in his home in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2018 when she was 17. She shot him in the head, burned down his house and stole his BMW. She was initially charged with multiple counts, including first-degree intentional homicide, arson, car theft and being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to the outlet.
Ms. Kizer was 16 when she met Voller. She alleged that Voller sexually abused her on multiple occasions. The prosecutor’s office also confirmed that it was working on a case against Voller at the time of Voller’s death. But prosecutors also said that Ms. Kizer had given no indication at the time of the murder that Voller had trafficked her.
In an interview in 2019 Washington PostMs Kizer said that in 2018 she went to Voller’s house with a gun in her purse, which she said her boyfriend had given her for protection. She alleged that while she was there, Voller gave her a drug and the two decided to watch a movie. She alleged that Voller began touching her and she refused to have sex with him, after which they began fighting.
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Ms. Kizer also said that Voller had pinned her down before shooting her twice. She then set Voller’s body on fire and fled in her car. “I thought I didn’t want to do this anymore because I was trying to change,” she said.
Kenosha District Attorney Michael D. Gravely charged Ms. Kizer with premeditated murder, alleging that she had planned to steal Voller’s BMW. In 2022, she won a legal victory when the state Supreme Court upheld a ruling that she could argue she had acted in self-defense under state law, which allows trafficking victims to present an affirmative defense for any crime committed as a direct result of being trafficked. She was released from jail earlier this year on a $400,000 bond after she fled the state in violation of her bail conditions. She was captured two weeks later in Louisiana and extradited back to Wisconsin.
