My darling boy was slain in cold blood. Now, thanks to Gavin Newsom, his killer will go free
Maria Gill, a Southern California mother, is advocating for reform of California's Proposition 57 after her 14-year-old son, Jeremy Rosales, was fatally shot in Victorville. She claims the law, which prevents prosecutors from trying juveniles as adults without a hearing, will allow one of the teen suspects to be released by age 25. Gill and other victims' families are calling for changes to the criminal justice policy, arguing it fails victims and their families.
- ▪Jeremy Rosales, a 14-year-old football player, was shot and killed near his home in Victorville in January 2026.
- ▪One of the suspects, a 16-year-old nephew of co-defendant Abel Ramirez, is being held under Proposition 57, which limits trying juveniles as adults.
- ▪Proposition 57 was passed by voters in 2016 and signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, with support from then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.
- ▪Maria Gill and other victims' families, including Stephen Quick, protested in Sacramento to push for reform of Prop 57.
- ▪Gill argues that juveniles who commit violent crimes should be subject to harsher penalties and tried as adults.
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Metro exclusive My darling boy was slain in cold blood. Now, thanks to Newsom, his killer will go free By Ben Chapman Published May 4, 2026, 9:24 a.m. ET A grieving SoCal mother says the killer of her 14-year-old son will go free – thanks to a woke criminal justice law backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Maria Gill, whose football star son Jeremy Rosales, nicknamed “Tank,” was gunned down near the family’s Victorville home in January, told The Post that one of her boy’s alleged assailants, aged 16, will be released by the time he’s 25 under California’s Proposition 57. “Proposition 57 –that’s all Gavin Newsom,” said Gill, a retail worker who last saw her son on the morning of Jan. 16, the day he was shot and killed.
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