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FIRST ON FOX: After her 18-year-old daughter, Hailey King, was run over by an illegal immigrant driving a truck 36 mph above the speed limit, Angel Mom Kathy Hall promised her dying daughter she was \u201cnever going to stop fighting for justice for her.\u201d
\nIn an interview obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital from advocacy group The American Border Story, Hall recounted her daughter\u2019s grisly killing, which, she said, launched her crusade to make sure that no other parents and children undergo the same fate.
\nWhile riding a scooter with a friend in Fayetteville, Arkansas, King was hit from behind by a speeding truck driven by illegal alien Sergio Rodriguez. According to Hall, her daughter was on her way home for dinner. Upon impact, King was thrown onto the hood of the truck. Hall said Rodriguez continued driving, swerving into another lane and sending King headfirst onto the street. King suffered a brain stem hemorrhage, inner and outer cranial hemorrhages, a burst spleen and a lacerated liver. She died shortly after the Nov. 7, 2016, incident, leaving behind her 2-year-old daughter, Brooklyn.
\nHall said Rodriguez was sentenced to 17 years in prison for manslaughter, battery and leaving the scene of a crime. After just one and a half years, Hall said she was notified that Rodriguez had become eligible for parole, forcing her to repeatedly relive her trauma each time she goes to court to testify against his release.
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Hall said that authorities showed up at her door the night of the incident and told her, \u201cYou need to come with us to the hospital.\u201d
\nShe said they took her to her daughter\u2019s hospital room where she found her \u201csitting up at a kind of an angle and her eyes were wide open. But she was like staring off into space.\u201d
\n\u201cI knew right when I looked at her that she was gone,\u201d said Hall. \u201cSo, I sat down with her and talked to her and told her how much I love her. Told her I was never going to stop fighting for justice for her\u2026 and then her heart stopped.\u201d
\nBesides King, Hall said that her daughter\u2019s friend, Osmin \u201cDavid\u201d Gutierrez, was \u201ctrapped underneath the truck for over a mile\u201d as the illegal immigrant continued driving. She said that \u201cwhen sparks started happening, [Rodriguez] pulled into an apartment complex. And when he did, David\u2019s torso was \u2013 his legs detached, [and he] was left in the driveway screaming for his life.\u201d
\n\u201cHe was still conscious,\u201d she said.
\nGutierrez died two years later from a blood clot resulting from his lost legs.
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Despite her promise, Hall said getting justice for her daughter has been a \u201chard long road.\u201d After the incident, Hall said Rodriguez \u201cdisappeared for three days\u201d before police found him. When he was apprehended, Hall said Rodriguez was released on bond in less than an hour.
\nShe believes that Rodriguez was \u201cprotected every step of the way\u201d during the trial process while she and her family \u201cwere treated like we were the criminals when we\u2019d go into court.\u201d
\nDespite his immigration status, Hall said a decision was made not to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She said she was told that \u201cif we would have informed ICE that he was here and he was illegal, that they would have just picked him up and taken him down to Texas and sent him back and he would have never had to deal with the death of [her] daughter.\u201d
\nAt the time, Hall said the family felt this \u201cwas kind of putting us in a rock and a hard place.\u201d
\n\u201cIt\u2019s so confusing to be there and say, \u2018OK, do I want him to be deported right now or do I just want him to spend time either way and get him out?\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cWe had no idea, you know, a choice like that. What kind of decision do you make?\u201d
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Due to parole hearings, Hall said that she and her family \u201chave to relive this right now every two years.\u201d
\n\u201cAs soon as the pain dulls a little bit, you have to go back through the whole thing preparing to try to keep him behind bars again,\u201d she said. \u201cMy daughter, the only thing she did wrong that day was being on the back of a scooter coming home for dinner. She didn\u2019t deserve this.\u201d
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\n\u201cShe doesn\u2019t deserve for her daughter to not know who she is and how much she loved her. She doesn\u2019t deserve any of it, and she deserves to have the justice I promised to her as she was dying,\u201d Hall continued, concluding, \u201cI\u2019ll never stop fighting; I\u2019m going to do everything I can to keep my promise to her.\u201d
\nFox News Digital reached out to the Fayetteville Police Department, Washington County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Washington County Prosecuting Attorney\u2019s Office and Washington County Circuit Court for comment.<\/p>\n
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