http://www.wral.com/police-raleigh-dad-tried-to-kill-kids-threw-them-in-lake/14915396/
This happened on Monday.
This happened on Monday.
http://www.wral.com/report-mother-of-drowned-girl-allowed-father-to-stay-with-children/14943565/
Mother of drowned girl allowed father to stay with children.
Wake County officials ordered her last spring to put a "safety plan" in place to keep her three children away from Alan Tysheen Eugene Lassiter following allegations that he was having inappropriate sexual thoughts about children, as well as suicidal and homicidal thoughts...
Although Alan Lassiter was receiving mental health treatment, counselors said it wasn't consistent enough and that he told them that he didn't think the treatment could ensure the children's safety if he were around, according to a report from Wake County Human Services.
Ashley Lassiter repeatedly told counselors that the children remained solely in her care and that she would keep them away from their father.
At a Sept. 18 meeting, Alan Lassiter requested to see the children, and counselors explored options for supervised visits, but they made it clear such visits would occur only after he resumed mental health care and his doctors could verify that he no longer posed a threat to the children, the report states.
Ashley Lassiter told counselors on Sept. 18 that the children remained solely in her care and that she would keep them away from their father, according to the report.
Two days later, Alan Lassiter called 911 to report that his children were drowning.
http://wncn.com/2016/05/06/raleigh-dad-wont-face-death-penalty-after-drowning-child-in-durham-pond/A Raleigh father accused of throwing his children into a pond in Durham resulting in the death of his 3-year-old daughter will not face the death penalty.
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Alan Lassister’s case is next due in court on Aug. 1.
Raleigh man found guilty of murder in drowning death of 3-year-old daughter in Durham
By Ashad Hajela and
Virginia Bridges
November 26, 2019 03:06 PM
A jury found a Raleigh man guilty of first-degree murder Tuesday in the drowning death of his 3-year daughter and the attempted first-degree murders of two more of his children, who survived.
Alan Lassiter told his wife on Sept. 20, 2015, that he was taking their three children to their grandmother’s house, but instead he took them to an apartment community pond where he intended to drown them, a prosecutor said.
Lassiter, 33, sat in a Durham County courtroom Tuesday afternoon, with his mother present, as a jury delivered its verdicts on the charges against him involving his daughter Calista and her siblings Bethany, 5, and Alan, 7.
The jury weighed two weeks’ worth of testimony and evidence as the defense argued Lassiter was insane and could not distinguish between right and wrong. The jurors worked through lunch to deliberate a verdict within four hours.
Lassiter said nothing as a judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole on the murder charge and between 11 years and seven months to 15 years on the attempted-murder charges.