The teen who killed his father spoke quietly as he told a judge he took full responsibility for his actions.

Lincoln Peterson, 16, said at his Thursday sentencing hearing that he loved and missed his dad.

“None of this was ever my intention,” he said. “I regret all of it.”

District Judge Tierra Jones ordered probation, with conditions including counseling, after Peterson spoke and family members said they forgave and still loved him. The judge said she had never seen someone with so much support and so many people willing to offer services if she ordered probation.

“Nothing, nothing compares to losing the love of my life, my husband, and knowing that my own son’s action was the cause,” said Abigail Peterson, the victim’s widow and defendant’s mother. “But unless you’ve stood in my plac

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