MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Nearly six years after Theodore High School senior Devinee Rooney was killed in a multi-vehicle crash, her family continues fighting for tougher penalties in Alabama for impaired driving fatalities.
The driver, Yaderik Madera-Morales, was convicted in 2022 of criminally negligent homicide and sentenced to at least six months in prison. Rooney’s family says that punishment never came close to fitting the crime.
Now they have spent years turning grief into action, working to get House Bill 243 passed to impose tougher penalties in similar cases…