Petersburg, Fla. — (WFLA) A 5-year-old girl is dead after police say her father threw her over the side of a St. Petersburg, Florida bridge early Thursday morning.
Police arrested 25-year-old John Jonchuck, Jr. of Tampa after an officer witnessed the girl being tossed from the bridge.
According to the St. Petersburg Police spokesperson Yolanda Fernandez, just after midnight a St. Petersburg Police officer was heading home when a Chrysler PT Cruiser passed him going about 100 miles per hour.
The officer turned his lights on to stop the car. When the car was near the top of the Dick Misener Bridge the officer saw the driver stop and throw a child over the side of the rail into the water.
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