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Father Who Killed Toddler Pleads For Death

Last updated on Friday, January 11, 2013

(NOBLESVILLE) - A man accused of stabbing his 2-year-old son to death got into a scuffle with deputies before court Thursday and pleaded with the judge to kill him.

TheIndyChannel.com staff reports that the initial hearing in Hamilton County for Micah Harrison, 30, of Robertsdale, Ala., on a preliminary charge of murder was delayed an hour after deputies had to subdue him during a violent outburst, authorities said.

Once Harrison did appear, he admitted to killing his son and told the judge he wanted death, pleading for "a rope or a bullet."

Police were called to the Autumn Breeze Apartments near Klipsch Music Center just before 5 p.m. Wednesday on a report of a child stabbed.

Harrison's son, Michael Harrison, 2, was found lying between a dresser and a television stand with stab wounds to his chest and forehead, according to the probable cause affidavit. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said Micah Harrison has relatives in the area and that the child's mother lives in Alabama, police said.

According to the affidavit, a woman inside the home at the time told police that Micah Harrison told her "something or someone was trying to kill him" and he attacked a closet door with a claw hammer.

The woman said she took the hammer from Harrison and told him that no one was there, but when she went to hide the hammer, she said she saw Harrison stab the child with a kitchen knife.

She took the knife away from him and called 911, police said.

Investigators said Harrison's two other children, a 4-year-old girl and a 5-year-old girl were in the home at the time, but they were not harmed.

Micah Harrison's trial was set for March 12. He told the judge he hopes he doesn't live that long. Harrison is on suicide watch at the Hamilton County Jail.

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