Judge Gives Probation to Las Vegas Teen Who Fatally Shot Dad over Taking Away Electronics

Breitbart ^ | August 19, 2025 | Amy Furr

[Texas Eagle]

That’ll learn ‘im.

[frank ballenger]

Not an easy life in a fatherless home. Judge probably held back tears. /S

[fwdude]

So, probation goes another... 6 month maybe, until adulthood?

Cakewalk.

[Reddy]

OMG. What a message to send to teens. Parents- your children are allowed to kill you if you discipline them.

Leftist judge, no doubt.

[blackdog]

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.

[Reddy]

“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.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Took away his electronics? Did he take away the kid's homebrew hyperscaler
home brew CPU controlled ham radio, Yagi antenna, and the kid's soldering iron?

Or maybe he just took the kid's Xbox?

[A Navy Vet]

Talk about a dysfunctional family.

[ClearCase_guy]

Good people are punished.
Bad people walk free.

[Secret Agent Man]

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.

[adorno]

Judge Gives Probation to Las Vegas Teen Who Fatally Shot Dad over Taking Away Electronics

It's only fair. How dare the dad take away the kid's brain?

The father giveth, but the father cannot taketh away.

Judge not the judge. He's a part of the modern liberal/democrat/progressive, very permissive world. In the upside-down world of the progressives, there are no criminals. Criminals are made by those who try to control people, and the dad was guilty of trying to control his son,and that's worthy of capital punishment.

Now the kid can claim to be a victim of society, because he's fatherless, and all kinds of social benefits should be coming his way.

[Reddy]

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”.

[Leaning Right]

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.

🤔

[cornfedcowboy]

Lifelong sadness. Just terrible.

[Dahoser]

"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."

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.)

[rlmorel]

That was the thing that caught my attention as well… He grabbed the gun as he ran by the washing machine.

Really.

[usurper]

Talk about a dysfunctional family.

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.

[lee martell]

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?

[lee martell]

The handgun was just “sitting on top of the dryer”, like freshly washed shirt?