UTICA, ONEIDA CO. (AP) -- A 21-year-old Central New York man has pleaded guilty to shooting his 3-month-old son to death in front of a state trooper.
Adam Theall of Rome wept and had to sit down several times as he admitted killing his baby son Eithen with a shotgun in June.
Theall told an Oneida County judge he'd been partying with a friend the night before and was high on drugs when he grabbed a loaded shotgun from his mother's home and confronted police called to the house by a domestic disturbance report.
Theall was shot more than a dozen times by troopers when he refused to put down the weapon after shooting the child.
He pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and faces 25 years to life in prison when he's sentenced on Nov. 18.
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