NEDERLAND, Texas — A mother in Nederland is fighting to keep her daughters killer behind bars.
Nearly 10 years ago, 18-year-old Kristin Paris was hit and killed by a drunk driver.
That driver, Rockline Kennedy, later pleaded guilty in 2015. Now he's up for parole.
On November 19, Beverly Paris, Kristin's mother will speak with the parole board to protest Kennedy's release.
Beverly Paris is a mom who does not want anyone else to know the pain of losing their child to a preventable accident.
She is asking for the community to write a protest letter to help keep Kennedy in prison.
"If he gets released he will go back home, and business as usual for him and here we are," said Paris.
Nearly 10 years later Paris is still grieving the loss of her daughter. She says that it's a pain that's indescribable.
"The ripple effect, of not having her here," said Paris. "And you can't measure that, you can't even feel it because with her personality I know that she would be a helper of some kind. All the people she can't help, or be friends with, or support," said Paris.
Before Kristin's life was taken, she was a senior at Nederland High School, who played the clarinet in band.
In 2015 her new years resolution was to spend more time with her family.
"You know she just had made her way around, to spend a lot of time with a whole lot of people. Sometimes I think obviously she wouldn't have known, but I think her spirit might've known," said Paris.
On January 26, 2015 she promised to help her cousin run an errand in Crosby. That day, Kristin was involved in a car accident on I-10 near Ford Park.
"That it was, you know, a drunk driver that was going the wrong way on the freeway and hit her head on," said Paris.
At the time, 65-year-old Rockline Kennedy, the owner of a bar was sentenced to 18 years in prison for intoxication manslaughter. The now 75-year-old is up for parole.
"It was his normal course of business to do what he did that night. Which is to be at the bar, and then drive himself home," said Paris.
You can find the info for the protest letter in the picture below.
