Courtroom footage shows Van Terry diving towards his daughter’s killer, Michael Madison.
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“Right now, I guess we’re supposed to in our hearts forgive this clown, who has touched our families, taken my child”, Mr Terry said.
A father spoke with Fox 8 on Thursday, explaining what caused him to lunge at his daughter’s killer while in court.
Van, who is the father of victim Shirellda Terry, was surrounded by sheriff’s deputies as Madison and his attorneys quickly moved out of the way.
The proceeding continued once Van Terry was taken from the courtroom.
He was sentenced on Thursday to death by an OH county judge.
Madison had just been sentenced to death for killing three women and wrapping their bodies in garbage bags.
He was arrested after a cable television worker reported a putrid smell coming from a garage shared by Madison.
The bodies, which all belonged to young black women, were found 100 yards to 200 yards apart and were each wrapped in plastic bags.
The next day, searchers found bodies in the basement of a vacant house and in the backyard of a home nearby.
Madison later told police he strangled two of the women but couldn’t remember killing the third.
The judge accepted a jury’s recommendation that Madison, 38, receive the death penalty.
McDonnell also sentenced Madison on the multiple lesser counts of kidnapping, rape, having weapons under disability and gross abuse of a corpse to a total of 51 years in prison – 11 years for each of the kidnappings, 11 years to life for the rape, 3 years for the weapons charge and 1 year for each of the abuse of a corpse charges. According to her, the horrific nature of the crime far outweighed the evidence presented by the defendants in an effort to spare him. Secondly, Ohio lacks the supplies necessary to execute the order, not to mention that no one knows for sure yet when the new round of executions will be implemented.
He was found guilty in 2011 and sentenced to death. Experts hired by the defense said Madison suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after being physically abused as a child by his drug-addicted mother, stepfather and other relatives, but that testimony didn’t sway the jury.
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“This history of abuse and his dysfunctional upbringing certainly doesn’t excuse what happened here but certainly provides a basis for understanding the type of person Michael Madison evolved into”, Grant told the judge.
