A teenager who repeatedly shot his father in the head has explained how he managed to escape going to prison and win the support of his family.
Anthony Templet, who was 17 when he picked up the gun back in 2019, even told the emergency services operator: “I just killed my dad. I shot him three times.”
Despite there being no evidence that he acted in self-defence, he dodged jail and instead was handed a five-year supervised probation.
He turned the weapon on his father Burt Templet at their home in Louisiana, US, three years ago.
As soon as the boy fired the bullets, he walked out and left his dad to die.
He was initially charged with second-degree murder, however the charge was later reduced to manslaughter.
His story is being told in a new Netflix documentary, I Just Killed My Dad.
But the case isn't as straight-forward as it seems.
Anthony, now aged 20, told on the show - which airs on Tuesday - how he would be "punched, thrown and kicked" during his dad's numerous fits of rage.
He had endured years of physical and mental abuse, which "sometimes wouldn’t stop for hours" - torment that would lead him to take the ultimate action.
“He always wanted to know everything," Anthony said in a clip previewing the documentary. "I was always being tracked by something, whether it be a camera or mobile app.
“He wanted to be in control of everything, of me and the rest of the family in that house. I knew he was trying to control me.”
His family alleged dad Burt had kept him isolated from the rest of his family for years, having taken him from their home in Texas when Anthony was four or five.
They backed him in court and said he had his reasons for doing what he did that fateful day.
Step mum Susan also fell victim to Templet's surveillance operations.
She explained: “Burt had an app on his phone - with every movement on a camera he’d get a text of what was going on.
“Every time I turned my car engine off, he’d get an alert that it was off.
“If I parked somewhere, he could know when I’d got home from the grocery store and how many bags I was carrying.”
She added: “Anthony is my child. I don’t see him as a stepson.
“I see him as my child because I know he has nobody. He has nobody to stand behind him.”
“I made him write his ABCs over and over like punish work, and taught him addition, subtraction and multiplication.
"But when it got to division, his father told me not to teach him because he could just use a calculator.”
In March last year, Anthony was convicted of negligent homicide over the death of his father.
He was sentenced to five years of supervised probation with credit for the time he had already served in prison.
The judge also added a special condition which required him to obtain a diploma during his supervised probation.
Prosecutor Dana Cummings said during the judgment: "What would time in jail do for this young man who has never actually had a chance to learn or to have friends or to be in the world?"
I Just Killed My Dad airs from Netflix on Tuesday August 9
