A Syracuse mother says the new bail reform law have allowed the freedom of "a killer."

In April 2019, 22-year-old Sarah Tombs was shot to death by her live-in boyfriend Darien Shellman. They shared the apartment with Tombs' four-year-old daughter. 

"Trying to fill her void, the hole that she left for her daughter and trying to get everything done, it was just a bit confusing," said Sarah Tombs’ mother Jennfier Payne.

Shellman says the shooting was accidental. He was loading the gun he legally owned when Tombs grabbed the gun. Prosecutors are pursuing a reckless non-intentional manslaughter charge. 

"I said, 'he can't get out,' I just couldn't believe this was going to happen,” Payne said. At the time that I heard it I'm like there's no way, how can that be? It just doesn't make any sense."

On Thursday, Shellman was released under the new bail reform laws because Shellman is not being charged with an intentional manslaughter charge. 

"They're putting people on the street that, I know you're presumed innocent until proven guilty, I get that, but he has admitted to killing my daughter. It's hard for me to understand how the governor sitting over in Albany, who doesn't know anything about the case, is saying, 'it's OK, he can go.' I don't get that," said Payne.

Tombs recently graduated from Bryant & Stratton College, studying criminal justice. She worked as a security guard at Destiny USA with hopes of becoming a 911 dispatcher or police officer.