Freese sentenced to consecutive life terms for killing parents
Sean Freese was sentenced Wednesday to back-to-back life terms at the Scott County Courthouse.
Freese was convicted in October of two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting deaths of his parents last year.
On October 5, 2016 Freese fired six shots into his parents’ bedroom, killing his mother and father.
Surveillance cameras showed Freese leaving and returning to the home a few different times after the shooting. He called police an hour after it happened.
EARLIER REPORT
Freese guilty of first degree murder
October 9, 2017
Sean Freese is guilty. It took a jury about two hours to convict the Davenport man of murdering his parents at their home a year ago.
Prosecutors convinced the jury the 21-year-old killed Kevin and Donna Freese last October.
Scott County Attorney Michael Walton pressed in his closing arguments this morning that Freese planned his parents’ murder after getting home past his midnight curfew.
A key part of that centered on a call Freese had with a friend while in jail.
During the call, Freese said, “I wasn’t thinking at all. We got into a huge argument, and I snapped. That was it.”
Freese’s defense team argued the call shows it was a crime of passion.
His lawyers believe voluntary manslaughter was more appropriate than a murder conviction.
One of their arguments as also the police went too fast to charge Freese with first-degree murder, but Walton says the trial proved that wasn’t the case.
Scott County Attorney Michael Walton said, “Job of the Davenport Police Department was very thorough, very intensive. All sorts of detectives, police officers, crime scene technicians were involved to get it right.”
The first-degree murder carried with it a mandatory life in prison sentence.
EARLIER REPORT
Sean Freese was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder on Monday in connection with the shooting deaths of his parents in October 2016.
His sentencing date is set for November 15.
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