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Robert Angelo Feola (Department of Corrections) <\/p>\n
PHOENIX<\/strong> – An 85-year-old Phoenix man was sentenced Wednesday to nine years in prison for the fatal shooting of his son-in-law during a domestic dispute last summer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Robert Angelo Feola received a shorter prison sentence than typical on July 1 after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter and domestic violence for the death of 60-year-old Karl Derek Thau.<\/p>\n Feola, who was originally booked on murder charges following the July 2025 incident, claimed he shot his son-in-law to protect his wife during a heated family argument.<\/p>\n His sentence officially began on June 26, and he was credited with 332 days of time already served.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n The fatal confrontation happened the evening of July 28, 2025, at a north Phoenix home near 14th Street and Topeka Drive<\/strong><\/a>. Officers were called to reports of a shooting at the house around 7:45 p.m.<\/p>\n When police arrived, they found Thau shot. Firefighters pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n Feola was arrested at the house. Detectives interviewed him at police headquarters before booking him into the Maricopa County Jail, where his bond was originally set at $500,000.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Inside a prison cell, Feola will turn 86 this Monday, July 6.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this report was gathered from Maricopa County Superior Court.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>North Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Robert Angelo Feola (Department of Corrections) PHOENIX – An 85-year-old Phoenix man was sentenced Wednesday to nine…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":907569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,57588,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-907568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-maricopa-county","tag-news","tag-north-phx","tag-phoenix","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116850589872033949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"AZ](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rt5yb8tju2toxwve.jpg\")
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