Cheryl Minter says she is surviving “hour by hour, day by day” through prayer after her daughter, Stephanie, was stabbed to death at a Fairfax County bus stop.Â
But through her grief, she has a blunt message for the prosecutor she believes failed to take warnings about the suspect seriously: “Do your job.”
“Do what you said in your vision on your web page. ,” Minter said Wednesday on “The Ingraham Angle.”
Stephanie Minter was at a bus stop late last month in Fairfax County, Virginia. She was discovered with multiple stab wounds to her upper body, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Minter said the man accused of killing her 41-year-old daughter should never have been free to carry out the attack, noting that had previously warned about the suspect and his lengthy criminal history.
Had prosecutors taken those warnings seriously, she said, “he would have been locked up and not able to do it.”
She is now calling on Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano to “help protect the people and get these people off the street any way he can,” arguing that her daughters death was preventable.
Abdul Jalloh, a 32-year-old illegal immigrant from Sierra Leone, has been charged in the killing. According to DHS, Jalloh had a , including dozens of prior arrests for offenses ranging from assault to rape and malicious wounding.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer on Jalloh in 2020, and he was later issued a final allowing him to be deported to any country other than Sierra Leone. Despite that order, he was not deported.
A Fairfax County spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the office “was aware of Jallohs criminal history and shared police concerns about potential future dangerousness. That is why our Chief Deputy Commonwealths Attorney personally handled these cases.”
The spokesperson added that prosecutors “will often explore many different pathways to successful prosecution, but, at the end of the day, our decisions are constrained by what testimony is available and what is legally permissible and practicable in Fairfax courts.”
Fox News’ Leo Bricento and Adam Sabes contributed to this report.
