Inset: Fritzner Antoine (Knox County Jail). Background: The street where he killed his daughter in June 2023 (Google Maps).
A man from Indiana, 64, faces spending his remaining days in prison after killing his daughter. Allegedly, he fatally stabbed her, feeling “humiliated” because she frequently left her children with him.
Judge Monica Gilmore from Knox County Circuit sentenced Fritzner Antoine to 60 years in a state correctional facility for the brutal murder of Sterline Antoine Joseph, authorities reported.
As outlined in a press release by the Knox County Prosecutor’s Office, officers from the Vincennes Police Department received a call about a potential stabbing around 7 a.m. on June 24, 2023. The incident occurred at a residence in the 1400 block of Audubon Road, approximately 115 miles southwest of Indianapolis.
Upon arriving at the scene, first responders found a 30-year-old woman — later identified as Joseph — suffering from what appeared to be multiple stab wounds, Terre Haute NBC affiliate WTWO reported. She was pronounced dead on the scene.
Joseph’s two children were at the residence and “heard their mother’s screams as she was killed by her father (their grandfather),” according to prosecutors.
Antoine readily confessed to the killing, telling investigators his daughter had “disrespected him” by “asking him to watch her children too often.”
“Antoine stated that Victim 1 ‘humiliated’ him and continually left her children with him. Antoine stated that he selected a ‘gold’ ‘table knife’ from near the sink in the residence,” police wrote in a probable cause affidavit. “Antoine stated that he intended to ‘flog’ Victim 1 for being disrespectful to him, he had the knife in his hand, so he ‘did it.””
