US man admits fatal standoff shooting of baby son

UTICA, New York (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 Thursday to killing his baby son Eithen with a shotgun in June.



Theall told a 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 who were responding to 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 to second-degree murder and faces 25 years to life in prison when he's sentenced on Nov. 18.