An inmate at the D.C. Jail will have his life sentence reduced thanks, in part, to a letter from criminal justice advocate Kim Kardashian West, per the Washington Post.

In July, Kardashian West visited the D.C. Jail as a part of a documentary she’s making about criminal justice reform. While there, she met Momolu Stewart, an inmate convicted of murder for shooting multiple rounds into the head and back of a man named Mark Rosebure 22 years ago, when Stewart was just 16.

Stewart was sentenced to life for the crime, along with the teen who committed it with him, Kareem McCraney. Last year, McCraney became the first inmate in D.C. released under a 2017 law called the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act.

In February, Stewart applied to be released under the same law, which allows the court to reconsider life sentences handed down to some juveniles if they’ve shown they’re rehabilitated, per the Post. In July, Kardashian West met with Stewart in the library of the D.C. Jail to assess whether she felt he was truly ready to be released, the outlet reports.

She did.

“Now, at the age of 39, having served 22.5 years, [Stewart] longs to rejoin his community and be a contributing member of society, and I believe he is truly deserving of the opportunity,” Kardashian West writes in the letter, obtained by the Post. “Being locked up since he was only 16 years old, Momolu is a genuine example of the transformation that can take place when a person commits their life to personal atonement and helping to lead others to their own redemption.” Stewart also received dozens of other letters in support of his early release, per the Post.

I’m so happy you’re coming home! You soooo deserve this! pic.twitter.com/uqYU8p7fau

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) September 14, 2019

At a hearing in August, Superior Court judge Robert Salerno considered all the materials before him and decided to grant Stewart’s petition for early release, though it’s not yet clear how early that might be, the Post reports.

Stewart’s case is complicated, because he had been convicted of two assaults with a deadly weapon before the murder, he was cited for 32 violations while in prison, and he appealed his charge twice, claiming innocence, per the outlet.

But during his time in prison, Stewart has also earned his GED and taken classes at Georgetown University, according to Kardashian West’s letter. And at an August hearing, he publicly took responsibility for the murder, according to the Post. “I apologize to Mr. Rosebure’s family. I apologize to my family. I apologize to everyone. I am guilty,” he said at the hearing according to the outlet.

Prosecutors said that the two teens had killed Rosebure in a botched robbery, but McCraney said at his resentencing hearing they had gone to confront him at a Southeast apartment building because Rosebure had stolen money from him and threatened his mother, per the Post. McCraney said that Rosebure reached his hand toward his waistband, and that’s when the two teens fired, the outlet says.

Stewart’s childhood and adolescence was marked by tragedy and trauma, which Kardashian West outlines in her letter. When he was six years old, Stewart’s mother murdered his father, and he was left basically orphaned and unmoored, she writes in the letter. “A lot of people don’t understand trauma and what it is to overcome trauma,” Stewart said at that same August hearing, per the Post. “I’m not perfect. But I’m not a monster.”

The judge set another hearing in October to allow the victim’s family to speak before he decides what sentence he’ll hand down, the outlet reports.

“While he cannot go back and change what happened when he was 16 years old, he takes responsibility for the pain he has caused to the victim’s family, and feels true remorse for his role in the crime that resulted in the loss of life,” Kardashian West writes. “He has, and continues to work hard to rehabilitate himself, and help others to forge a path to healing and redemption.”

This story has been updated to reflect that Stewart was previously convicted of assault with a deadly weapon.