6-Month-Old Baby Dead After Dad Squeezes Her So Tightly She Stops Breathing
KEY POINTS
He entered a plea bargain with state prosecutors, avoiding a 100-year maximum prison sentence
Lesser charges of aggravated domestic battery and endangering the life and health of a child were dropped as part of the plea
A man from Peoria, Illinois, pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing his 6-month-old daughter moments before his trial was set to start.
In a plea bargain with Peoria County prosecutors, 21-year-old Kyler Purser pleaded guilty to first-degree murder just as his bench trial was about to begin, local newspaper Peoria Journal Star reported. Had he not entered the plea deal, Purser could have faced a maximum of 100 years in prison, if convicted, because of his daughter s age.
PEORIA A South Peoria man pleaded guilty Tuesday, just before his trial was to start, to killing his 6-month-old daughter.
Kyler Purser, 21, entered the plea to first-degree murder just before his bench trial was to begin as part of a plea with Peoria County prosecutors that netted him a 20-year prison term.
Without the deal, he could have faced up to 100 years behind bars if convicted.
Prosecutor Donna Cruz gave a factual basis for the plea that stated Purser grew frustrated with his 6-month-old daughter, Lisa, and held her so tightly against his body that she couldn’t breathe on Sept. 8, 2019.
PEORIA The attempted murder conviction of a Peoria man was thrown out this week after an appellate court panel ruled a judge should have let one of his key witnesses take the stand.
Instead, Peoria County Circuit Judge Paul Gilfillan didn t allow the witness to take the stand as the witness initially gave a false name, saying “he did not want to get involved in the trial of Myrune D. Linwood, who was convicted of shooting another man in August 2017 outside a South Peoria nightclub.
Linwood, 29, was sentenced to 36 years on the charge of attempted murder. After the December 2017 verdict and after the jury had left the room, Linwood got up, walked to the front of the table and flung a pitcher, which was full of water, about 10 feet toward the clerk’s desk, according to witnesses.