--- description: The 25 year-old faces a first-degree murder charge for killing his daughter title: Father Throws His 5-Year-Old Daughter Off a Bridge image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6fd6cae211eed19/698778d306f2c1f14a33346a/ap346817712811-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Father Throws His 5-Year-Old Daughter Off a Bridge by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 8, 2015 3:35 PM CUT  This image provided by the Pinellas County Jail shows a booking photo of John Nicholas Jonchuck Jr. This image provided by the Pinellas County Jail shows a booking photo of John Nicholas Jonchuck Jr.AP—AP by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 8, 2015 3:35 PM CUT A Florida father charged with hurling his 5-year-old daughter from a Tampa Bay bridge just after midnight Thursday had filed a domestic violence injunction against the girl’s mother last month, police revealed. That request was declined. A motive for the heinous act, however, wasn’t immediately clear after the suspect — 25-year-old John Jonchuck Jr. — refused to talk after his arrest, St. Petersburg Police Chief Tony Holloway said at a news conference Thursday morning. Jonchuck, who had custody of his daughter, had been sitting in his Chrysler PT Cruiser at the top of the Dick Misener Bridge moments after speeding… [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/girl-found-dead-after-being-thrown-bridge-st-petersburg-florida-n282036?cid=par-time-article%5F20141002 "undefined") _Read next:_ [_Search For Charlie Hebdo Suspects Narrows to Rural Area_](http://www.time.com/3659164/charlie-hebdo-paris-suspects/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3659459/florida-father-bridge-john-jonchuck/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3659459/florida-father-bridge-john-jonchuck/"},"headline":"Father Throws His 5-Year-Old Daughter Off a Bridge","datePublished":"2015-01-08T15:35:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:24:07.826Z","description":"The 25 year-old faces a first-degree murder charge for killing his daughter","url":"https://time.com/3659459/florida-father-bridge-john-jonchuck/","keywords":["Crime","Florida"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6fd6cae211eed19/698778d306f2c1f14a33346a/ap346817712811-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6fd6cae211eed19/698778d306f2c1f14a33346a/ap346817712811-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"This image provided by the Pinellas County Jail shows a booking photo of John Nicholas Jonchuck Jr.","caption":"This image provided by the Pinellas County Jail shows a booking photo of John Nicholas Jonchuck Jr.","creditText":"AP—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3659459/florida-father-bridge-john-jonchuck/","name":"Father Throws His 5-Year-Old Daughter Off a Bridge"}}]}] ```