The Joshua Peterson Murder Case
4 min readJan 14, 2020
On Friday 05th April 2013 a frantic call came in to 911 requesting emergency assistance at a home in American Fort Utah.
The desperate caller reports that a baby has been shot and that the shooter was his father, 21 year old Joshua Peterson.
The caller was Pam Thompson, the grandmother of the gunman and great grandmother of the baby, 5 month old Ryker Peterson.
Despite police arriving at the scene within literally minuets and the baby being transported by helicopter to hospital Ryker was pronounced dead at Salt Lake City, he had been killed by a single gunshot wound to the head.
The baby’s father 21 year old Joshua David Peterson was arrested at the scene on suspicion of aggravated murder and remanded in custody.
