Posted on 08/19/2025 1:23:04 PM PDT by Red Badger
A judge ordered probation on Thursday for the teenager who fatally shot his father on December 28 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The accused is 16-year-old Lincoln Peterson. HIs mother said the deadly incident happened after the boy’s family took his electronics away because of his bad grades, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Thursday.
His parents reportedly believed he was “sneaking electronics” and a fight erupted.
“The teen said his mother had struck him with a belt, according to an adult certification order. He was running from his parents when he picked up a handgun sitting on top of a dryer and fired backward,” the article read. However, the teenager claimed he was unaware he hit someone.
Video shows authorities at the scene following the shooting:
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That’ll learn ‘im.
Not an easy life in a fatherless home. Judge probably held back tears. /S
So, probation goes another... 6 month maybe, until adulthood?
Cakewalk.
OMG. What a message to send to teens. Parents- your children are allowed to kill you if you discipline them.
Leftist judge, no doubt.
The prisons for criminals are out here with the deplorables.Its a free-range, zero bail kinda virtual prison. Most of our nation’s prisons are vacant and shuttered. Last figure was around 70% of the capacity to jail criminals remains vacant.
“Peterson’s mother said, “Nothing, nothing compares to losing the love of my life, my husband, and knowing that my own son’s action was the cause. But unless you’ve stood in my place, you cannot understand the depth of the pain that coexists with forgiveness and love.””
You’re next, lady.
Or maybe he just took the kid's Xbox?
Talk about a dysfunctional family.
Good people are punished.
Bad people walk free.
Parole for this.
Did they think this 16 year old boy was a woman? Only reason I can figure for such a massively light sentence.
I’m wondering if the “dad” was really the “step-dad”.
Just from the way the mom worded how she lost the love of her life, and “knowing that my own son’s action was the cause”.
Judges simply have too much discretion. The minimum for such a murder should be 10 years in prison. It should not be probation.
I’m no lawyer. But I’ve thought about this before. Get a grumpy judge who’s got a bit of indigestion, and the sentence is 20 years. Get a judge who’s having a really pleasant day, and it’s probation.
Something doesn’t seem right there.
🤔
Lifelong sadness. Just terrible.
I've never understood why we all keep a handgun on the top of our dryer because it's such a pain to move it so we can clean out the lint filter and then have to put the gun back where it was. (Don't make me put the tag on that.)
That was the thing that caught my attention as well… He grabbed the gun as he ran by the washing machine.
Really.
Why would say that? Mom and dad actually cared about his low grades and took action to remedy the situations. Most parents don't even care and let their kids do whatever they want.
The only thing dysfunctional in this story is the judge who didn't care because he would do the same thing if his parents took his stuff.
That mother is strangely forgiving to her murderous son.
Maybe the Dad was not liked, not really loved by both mother and son. So is this 16 yr old just going to go back home and high school, as if nothing of note even happened?
The handgun was just “sitting on top of the dryer”, like freshly washed shirt?
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