Dad gets three years forleaving out gun that sonused to shoot, kill boy

TOMS RIVER — A Toms River man, who accepted re-sponsibility for the fatal shooting of his 6-year-oldneighbor by his 4-year-old son, was sentenced Thurs-day to three years in prison for leaving the loaded riflethat killed the boy unsecured and accessible to the chil-dren in his home.

Before Anthony Senatore, 35, of McCormick Drive,was sentenced for his role in the 2013 shooting death ofBrandon Holt, he told Superior Court Judge Wendel E.Daniels that his lapse in judgment will haunt two fam-ilies forever.

“The events of April 8, 2013, have left a permanentmark in the life of two families who could not haveimagined that such a horrific event would occur,” Sena-tore said, adding that he thinks about the tragedy allday, every day.

“Although I will be sentenced this morning to a termof imprisonment, the torment of these thoughts will oc-cupy me throughout my existence on this earth,'” Sena-tore said.

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Anthony Senatore is taken into custody after his sentencing in Superior Court in Toms RiverThursday. He pleaded guilty Oct. 30 to two counts of child endangerment.

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Ron and Christine Holt cry as Anthony Senatore addresses a judge Thursday before being sentenced for his role in the fatal shooting of their 6-year-old son, Brandon.

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“On April 9, 2013, we had to watch my sweet, beautiful,

6-year-old boy take his last breath.’’

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JACKSON — A State Police sergeant’s teenage daugh-ter who dressed like Hitler and posted on social media apicture of a popular gathering spot for Orthodox Jews—with the caption “perfect bombing time” — may havebehaved offensively, but not criminally, authoritiessaid.

The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office examined theTwitter post and a cache of other pro-Hitler images bythe Jackson teen and her associates and concluded thatthey did not amount to any credible threat.

“There was never any danger being posed to the com-munity,” said Al Della Fave, a spokesman for the office.“It didn’t rise to anything criminal.”

He added that the one teen’s connection to law en-forcement afforded her no special treatment — even aspolice remain on heightened alert for terrorism andthreats conveyed through social media.

“That would not be something that would be a deter-mining factor,” Della Fave said. “That has no bearing on

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Authorities say teens’posts are not criminal

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TINTON FALLS — For the second time in her life,Roxane LaMont prepares to face what no parentshould have to experience: the burial of her child.

LaMont and her husband, Bill, will say goodbye totheir second daughter, 25-year-old Sara LaMont, whowas killed by her boyfriend in an apparent murder-su-icide at Tulane University in New Orleans.

They plan to take her casket to the Rockland Ceme-tery in Sparkill, New York, next week and lower it afew feet away from her sister, Sharon, who died ofBatten disease nearly 20 years ago.

“I never thought I would be burying a secondchild,” Roxane said in a phone interview with the As-bury Park Press. “Never.”

In the wake of her daughter’s death, Roxane hasfound solace in the little things. Roxane’s favoritedays are snowy ones, and this week’s flurries broughther hope that maybe Sara was watching over her fromthe clouds.

“I love snow, and since she was killed, it has snowed

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