SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento County District Attorney's Office is raising alarms after a violent felon was granted parole, just 14 years into a 90-year sentence.
In 2011, Kyle Frank was convicted on eight attempted murder counts after a freeway shooting rampage in the summer of 2009.
On four separate occasions, he opened fire at vehicles on the freeway while driving under the influence of alcohol and cocaine.
But on April 10, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's parole board granted Frank parole.
"Given the extreme violence and trauma inflicted on the victims in this case," Frank should not have been granted parole after serving just 15% of his prison sentence, Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho said.
On August 22, 2009, Paul Adcock became the first of Frank's several victims.
"I never would have thought anyone would have unloaded a gun on the freeway, but I was wrong," Adcock said.
Adcock recalled encountering Frank on the Capitol City Freeway.
"He's in the middle lane, and I’m in the fast lane and he’s giving me the finger and calling me the N-word, you name it. And I was in a sports car, so I thought he can’t keep up with me, so I’ll just keep going," Adcock said.
"Next thing I know, I hear bullets hitting my car," he said.
Some of the victims were families with small children. All of the victims were minorities.
"I was thinking that this was an incredibly dangerous individual that harbored some type of racial animus towards people of African American or Hispanic descent," said Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney Rochelle Beardsley, who worked the case.
"My victims kind of took solace in that the person who tried to end my life this day, is never going to get out to hurt me or anybody else again," she said of Frank's original 90-year sentence.
ABC10 reached out to the parole board for comment on this story, and an explanation why they granted Frank parole. As of the publication of this article, the department hasn't responded to that request.
Meanwhile, the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office has called upon Governor Gavin Newsom to intervene and refer the decision to the full parole board to reconsider and possibly rescind Frank's parole.
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