A horrific crash in Franktown, Colorado, claimed five lives—including a father and his three young children—when 31-year-old parolee Walter Huling, driving a stolen Ford sedan with five juveniles inside, lost control and collided head-on with an oncoming vehicle on November 24, 2025. Huling, who had a lengthy rap sheet including assault, burglary, sexual assault, and weapons charges dating back to 2013, had just hours earlier carjacked the vehicle at an Aurora RTD station by yanking the owner out. Despite multiple prison terms, including six years for a 2019 assault, Huling was free on parole under Democratic Governor Jared Polis's administration. This tragedy highlights ongoing concerns about Colorado's lenient criminal justice reforms allowing repeat offenders back on the streets.
This heartbreaking crash isn't just a "tragic accident"—it's the direct result of Democrat-driven "reform" policies that prioritize criminals over Coloradans' safety. Walter Huling, a violent thug with a decade of assaults, burglaries, and sex crimes on his record, should've been locked up for life, not handed a get-out-of-jail-free card on parole. Governor Polis loves to virtue-signal about "rehabilitation," but his soft-on-crime agenda—slashing sentences, bailing out repeat offenders, and turning our streets into a revolving door for felons—put this monster behind the wheel of a stolen car, careening toward innocent families. A devoted dad and three precious kids are dead because liberal judges and lawmakers chose woke empathy over tough justice. Enough! We need real accountability: mandatory minimums for violent felons, end parole for high-risk predators, and boot the bureaucrats who enable this chaos. Demand Polis stop coddling killers—Colorado deserves leaders who protect us, not pander to the guilty.