Michael James Penton

In the fall of 1984, in Killeen, Texas, the life of a two-month-old infant boy named Michael James Penton was tragically cut short. The male infant died on November 26, 1984, a victim of violent shaking at the hands of his own father, David Elliott Penton. At the time, David Penton was a soldier stationed at Fort Hood. An investigation by the Bell County medical examiner determined that Michael had been shaken to death in what was described as a "fit of rage" because the infant would not stop cr ...