Anthony Templet did not waste time telling the 911 operator why he was calling. “I just killed my dad,” the 17-year-old said in a shaky voice the night of 3 June 2019. There was some confusion on the other end of the line. “You said you just killed your dad?” the operator asked. When Anthony replied affirmatively, she continued: “So, is he still alive?”
Burt Templet, Anthony’s father, was not. His son shot him dead that night. Anthony Templet has never denied that fact. “I grabbed two [guns] in case one didn’t work,” he said during an interrogation, shortly after the 911 call. “I hadn’t shot these guns in so long.” But Anthony has long maintained his innocence, asserting that he killed his father as a result of years of abuse he suffered at Burt’s hands, and because he felt he had no other way to guarantee his own safety.
