At 14 he slaughtered the woman who raised him and at 21, he walked free. What now?



At 14, Donovan Nicholas murdered the woman who raised him. At 16, he was sentenced to life in prison. At 21, he walked free. No one who spoke with ABC News about the case said they had ever seen anything quite like it. https://abcn.ws/4ahPlcz

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32 comments

  1. There’s got to be more to this story than what the public is aware of. Sometimes you just don’t know what goes on behind closed doors.

  2. I don’t know what to say… 😮

  3. Actually, that explanation confirms it was his mother he killed. BFFR

  4. Bad at murder is NOT a defense in court people, even if true crime expert Mike calls it out!

  5. You never know the behind the scene.

  6. Haw could anyone trusted him again you never know what people have inside them sometimes just pure evil sad 😔

  7. How could you hurt your mum???❓❓❓🇺🇲

  8. Why did he kill her? He wasn’t abused.

  9. Not all parents are as good as they make themselves appear. Some are extremely abusive emotionally and mentally. If a child is deemed "Normal" by all standards, then there's only one other person that should also be tested. The parents or caregivers.🎉

  10. What now? Keep a close eye on him…Psych tests… the sentence agreed upon was served…cuz of the severity of the crime parole needs to do its job..house visits..actually do it most parole officers never do that… plus what were his psych evals in Juvenile detention.. his lawyer must have put on a compeling defense… he didn't get life…w all the tech parole has now they can closely monitor him hopefully in a program which allows him to integrate into society… that's what now.. corporate media so wants people to fall into low IQ Republican smooth brain by fearmongering.. I'm sure you covered the sentence he got in 2016? 7 years ago? Or is this too start anotjer oh no crime is off the charts narrative…

  11. Maybe it was due to sexual aggression?

  12. What medications was he taking ? When you can answer that you may understand the "why ". Check the ADD meds

  13. What is wrong with the young
    People to days .

  14. I have seen spoiled kids act out emotionally, shout and go ballistic because they did not get what they want. Until I sad something to him because his parents would not; and don’t recognize that this is a problem.

  15. So after 7 years he is released? The system is foul that he ws not put into controlled living home.

  16. And once again click bait with no explanation whatsoever

  17. The mind is being affected,mental health matters

  18. Why would you say that she wasn’t his mother. If she raised him since he was a toddler, then she was his mother!

  19. Nobody knows what was going on but either way it's so sad that something like this happened!!

  20. Why is this considered news to be shared? It seems like gossip time.
    Donovan and Family need help… Not to be brought about with headline news. 🤔

  21. If a homie of mine can get sentenced at the age of 18 to 31 years for murder, serve 26 years 9 months and 13 days, and get paroled, with glowing reviews and letters to and from the California Parole Board, lawyers, other inmates and even the victims family, and while in prison became a modelled prisoner and help create many programs in the California Prison system that help teach, rehabilitate and give skills to prisoners so that they stand a great chance of getting out, getting jobs, go to college and never return to prison, to inmates that many got sentenced to 20+ years at ages were they weren't really adults, sure 18 is an adult age but most 18yr olds aren't mentally adult, and going to prison with teenager minds means getting out only allowed them to get in trouble again and go right back to prison, but thanks to my homie many of them will never return

  22. Or what happened to him before he came to live with this family.