Father kills infant daughter with crossbow

On Monday morning, Patrick D. Proefriedt, 26, got into an altercation with his wife inside their home in Town of Colesville, leading him to fire a broadhead crossbow bolt that struck the couple’s three-week-old daughter in the upper torso and then his wife in the chest. Proefriedt then tried to remove the bolt before attempting to stop his wife from calling the police. He fled the scene in a 2016 Dodge Ram pickup truck, and …

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Man sentenced for brutal killing of his infant son, beating him until he was brain dead

On Monday, Ada County District Judge James S. Cawthon sentenced Thomas Rowley, a thirty-year-old father from Idaho, to life in a state department of correction facility with the possibility of parole after a minimum of 25 years for the June 2020 killing of his four-month-old son, Milo Rowley. Prosecutor Jan Bennetts expressed her condolences to Milo’s mother and family, praising the hard work of the trial team, medical experts, and Boise Police Detectives in bringing …

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