'This isn't real': Son shot and killed father during argument about bad grades and losing access to digital devices

A Las Vegas teen volition debar situation clip aft killing his father past twelvemonth due to the fact that helium was upset astir losing entree to integer devices.

Late past week, Lincoln Peterson, 16, pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of voluntary manslaughter with the usage of a deadly limb for the patricidal shooting that took the beingness of Jeremy Peterson, 45.

On Dec. 28, 2024, officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department recovered the elder Peterson dormant wrong the family's location connected Tampa Court successful the westbound vale country of Sin City.

Immediately aft pleading guilty, the younger Peterson was fixed a 2nd lease connected life. Clark County District Judge Tierra Jones sentenced the slayer to 5 years of probation and a suspended condemnation of 3 to 7 1/2 years successful prison.

When the suspect committed the crime, helium was lone 15 years old.

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On the time successful question, constabulary responded to a harrowing 911 telephone by the victim's girl — the defendant's sister — according to audio obtained by Las Vegas-based CBS affiliate KLAS.

"He changeable and killed my dad," the panicked young pistillate told the dispatcher, her enactment ragged. "This isn't real. This isn't real. Help."

In response, the dispatcher asked astir the shooter — angling for a statement truthful constabulary could apprehend him.

"He wasn't wearing a shirt," the man's girl replied — referring to her brother. "He was conscionable wearing jeans. I don't cognize wherever helium went. I don't cognize wherever the weapon is. He changeable and killed him."

In the audio, the young pistillate chides herself for not telling her parents astir a anterior firearm incidental allegedly involving her brother.

"I ever thought helium would termination himself but not anybody else," she said. "He's pulled a weapon connected maine and I should person warned my parents. I should person told them. I should person told them."

The caller goes connected to accidental that incidental besides stemmed from the boy's anger. After an statement immoderate 3 weeks before, she said, her member got upset, punched a spread successful the partition and ran outside.

"You're going to beryllium successful truthful overmuch trouble," she told him astatine the time.

Days aft Christmas, a akin script played retired successful the Peterson home.

Jeremy Peterson told his lad helium was chopped disconnected from utilizing devices aft receiving mediocre grades astatine schoolhouse — and besides accused the 15-year-old of "sneaking" entree to the verboten electronics anyway, according to tribunal records obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

In the ensuing argument, Lincoln Peterson's parent allegedly deed him with a loop and the teen ran off. He grabbed a weapon laying atop a dryer and fired backmost blindly but "denied immoderate cognition of hitting anyone," according to an adult certification order obtained by the newspaper.

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On Aug. 14, the admitted shooter was reportedly soft-spoken and glum arsenic helium told the justice a contrite communicative of afloat culpability.

"None of this was ever my intention," the lad said. "I regret each of it."

The justice seemed to judge the allocution arsenic genuine – saying she credited his family's effusive enactment for her determination to contented probation.

"Nothing, thing compares to losing the emotion of my life, my husband, and knowing that my ain son's enactment was the cause," Abigail Peterson, the victim's widow and defendant's parent reportedly said during the sentencing hearing. "But unless you've stood successful my place, you cannot recognize the extent of the symptom that coexists with forgiveness and love."

The grief-stricken sister and girl spoke up connected Lincoln Peterson's behalf arsenic well.

"My begetter has passed and I volition not person him for the remainder of my life," the sister said. "I volition not get to person a wedding wherever helium walks maine down the aisle. I volition not get to present my children to him. But arsenic overmuch arsenic my household is torn apart, determination is reconciliation and I bash judge successful forgiveness."

Then, done tears, Lincoln Peterson's sister added: "I emotion you and I'm going to enactment you nary substance what."

Under the presumption of his probation, Lincoln Peterson indispensable debar intoxicant and marijuana entirely, indispensable supply passwords for each of his devices and societal media accounts to parole and probation officers, indispensable abide by a curfew, indispensable implicit counseling, and indispensable get his precocious schoolhouse diploma oregon GED.