A Milwaukee woman who claimed immunity from prosecution because the guy she fatally shot was sexually trafficking her was sentenced to 11 years in jail on Monday, according to Kenosha County Court documents.
Chrystul Kizer, who pled guilty to reckless homicide in the case earlier this year, will also serve five years of parole, Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley told CNN in an email on Monday. “The 11 years is minus … 570 days because she has served those awaiting trial,” claimed Graveley.
According to Kenosha County Court prosecutors, Kizer shot Randall Volar, 34, in his Kenosha, Wisconsin, home in 2018. She was 17 years old at the time.
The Associated Press stated that Kizer shot Volar in the head, burned down his house, and stole his BMW. She was initially charged with several offenses, including first-degree intentional homicide, arson, automobile theft, and felon in possession of a handgun.
Kizer, who is Black, said she was trafficked by Volar, who is White, starting when she was 16.
In 2022, the Wisconsin Supreme Court found that a state provision exempting trafficking victims from criminal culpability for actions committed as a direct result of being trafficked includes first-degree intentional homicide.
The court determined that Kizer’s defense team should be able to submit evidence at trial showing the offenses she was charged with were “a direct result of the violence she experienced,” according to a statement from the Chicago Community Bond Fund.
The verdict permitted Kizer to argue that the killing was justified. However, before she can assert immunity, Kizer must first produce evidence to a trial court that her choice to kill Volar was related to being trafficked, according to the Associated Press.
According to the bond fund, Kizer claims Volar’s murder was caused by self-defense, but in May of this year, she pled guilty to a lesser count of reckless homicide, court documents show.
Kizer, 17, packed a revolver in her bookbag and drove from Milwaukee to Volar’s home in Kenosha in June 2018, telling her boyfriend she was going to shoot him because she was tired of him touching her, according to the Associated Press, citing court documents.
