Nebraska man who killed parents and niece a day after Christmas last year offered no reason for the gun violence
Dalton arrived at his parents' home on December 26, 2017, guns blazing, shooting through the door and striking his mother. He then entered the house and shot his father and niece
A Nebraska man who fatally shot both his parents and niece on the day after Christmas in 2017 pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and four gun-related counts.
Douglas County District Judge Leigh Ann Retelsdorf handed down three life sentences as well as another 197 to 230 years in prison to 46-year-old John Dalton Jr. in the triple murders of father John Dalton Sr., 70, mother Jean Dalton, 65, and niece Leonna Dalton-Phillip, 18.
