He Promised to Present His 2-Yr-Outdated Daughter Christmas Lights — As an alternative, He Set Her on Fireplace

An Arizona man who was serving a life sentence for pouring gasoline on his two-year-old daughter and setting her on hearth has died in jail.

Shawn Ryan Grell, 50, died on April 19 at ASPC-Tucson facility, in accordance with the Arizona Division of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry.

“All inmate deaths are investigated in session with the county health worker’s workplace,” the division stated.

It is unclear how the inmate died.

Grell picked up his daughter Kristen Salem from her daycare in Dec. 1999 with a plan to take her to see Christmas lights, the East Valley Tribune reported.

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As an alternative, the twosome drove to a division retailer in Mesa the place he bought a gasoline can after which purchased some gasoline. He then drove to a distant desert space in east Mesa earlier than putting his daughter on the bottom and setting her on hearth, in accordance with the Tribune.

The lady crawled about 10 ft earlier than she died, prosecutors stated, per azfamily.com.

He was convicted of first-degree homicide and theft in connection to her killing in 2001 and sentenced to loss of life.

Nevertheless in 2013, his loss of life sentence was commuted after the Arizona Supreme Court docket dominated that he had psychological retardation, azfamily.com reported. He was sentenced to life in jail.