A Florida man who tossed his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge in 2015 has been convicted of murder.
Michele Jonchuck, grandmother of 5-year-old Phoebe Jonchuck, holds a photo of her granddaughter after a news conference in Tampa, Florida, on Jan. 14, 2015.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.CLEARWATER, Fla. — A Florida jury on Tuesday found a man guilty of first-degree murder for dropping his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge four years ago.
No one disputed that Jonchuck, now 29, dropped his daughter Phoebe 62 feet into Tampa Bay in January 2015, and that he had a long history of mental problems. But assistant public defender Jessica Manuele told jurors Jonchuck loved Phoebe more than anything else in the world and that there's no evidence he acted out of"unbridled anger."
Twelve hours before Phoebe's death, Jonchuck's divorce lawyer, Genevieve Torres, called a state child protection hotline, fearing for the girl's safety, authorities said. Just after midnight the next day, Jonchuck's PT Cruiser raced past officer William Vickers, who was heading home from a shift in his patrol car. He started following Jonchuck, but never got close enough to read the license plate and didn't know Phoebe was inside, authorities have said.
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