UPDATE: Killer Who Sparked California Victims' Group Denied Parole

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California parole officials are rejecting the release of a killer whose crime led to the creation of one of the state's best-known crime victims groups.

Harriet Salarno founded Crime Victims United of California after her 18-year-old daughter was fatally shot by her former boyfriend on her first day at the University of the Pacific in Stockton in 1979.

A parole panel decided Wednesday that 55-year-old Steven Burns should remain in Valley State Prison in Chowchilla for killing Catina Rose Salarno. The panel also decided Burns' next parole hearing will be in five years.

Nina Salarno says the family created the organization to try to balance a criminal justice system they feel too often forgets about the victims. She is a former prosecutor who now heads the crime victims' group.

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