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Ryan Lillis, Hector Amezcua

‘My son was a human being.’ Mother of hit-and-run victim offers compassion to driver

Lisa Wiley is not motivated by vengeance when she thinks about the person who killed her son in a hit-and-run incident in 2022. “I’m looking for justice,” she said, “but I’m also looking for the person who did this, for their soul to be saved.

“And if I met them,” she said, “I would give them a hug.”

Robert Lee Jenson, 40, was walking back to his mother’s Carmichael home from a food and liquor market on June 20, 2022. It was a few minutes after dusk on the longest day of the year, and the temperature was still in the high 80s as an early summer stretch of warm weather descended on the region.

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