A 34-year-old Illinois man has handed himself over to police in connection with the fatal shooting of his 14-year-old daughter.

This development came a month after the child passed away in the hospital, while a 58-year-old woman, Karen A. Schwarze, is also facing prosecution for trying to conceal the tragedy.

The local Monroe County Jail police have since charged the girl’s father, David Schultheis, for “knowingly discharg[ing] a firearm in a reckless manner [and] endangering the bodily safety of another person.”

The 24-year-old man took a shot at a protected bird in a brick building

The incident took place on July 21 at 1:34 p.m. when Schultheis tried to shoot a buzzard that had entered a brick building.

In his bid to avoid getting hit by a ricochet, he kept his head outside the door

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