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A Maine woman who previously served time as a convicted killer was elected to serve on a local city council on Tuesday night, causing a stir on social media in the process.

Angela Walker was elected to the Bangor city council, New York Post reported , more than 20 years after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of a man named Derek Rogers in 2002.

The manslaughter conviction stemmed from a fight where Walker was allegedly called a racial slur derogatory toward Native Americans and the man who said it, a Canadian tourist named Derek Rogers, was later found beaten to death and suffocated with sand, according to news reports.

Walker ultimately pleaded guilty to manslaughter , along with her brother, and perj

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