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…
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