A Las Vegas teenager will avoid prison time after killing his father last year because he was upset about losing access to digital devices.

Late last week, Lincoln Peterson, 16, pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter with the use of a deadly weapon for the patricidal shooting that took the life of Jeremy Peterson, 45.

On Dec. 28, 2024, officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department found the elder Peterson dead inside the family's home on Tampa Court in the west valley area of Sin City.

Immediately after pleading guilty, the younger Peterson was given a second lease on life. Clark County District Judge Tierra Jones sentenced the killer to five years of probation and a suspended sentence of three to 7 1/2 years in prison.

When the defendant committed the crime

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