Anthony Shannon Lane is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his daughter, Amanda.The Daily News Journal
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – A man serving a 25-year sentence for child abuse has been charged with first-degree murder after an autopsy revealed the beating he gave his then-infant daughter led to her death last year at age 22, authorities said.
Anthony Shannon Lane, 41, was convicted of aggravated child abuse in 1992 for attacking and critically injuring Amanda Michelle Lane-Woodall when she was 5 weeks old, according to a news release from the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and upon his release was charged and convicted of aggravated child abuse of a second child, her half-brother Ryan Lane.
Anthony Lane, who is serving a 25-year sentence for the second conviction at Hardeman County Correctional Facility, was charged Monday with first-degree murder in Lane-Woodall’s death. An autopsy performed by the state medical examiner’s office showed her manner of death was homicide, caused by complications of blunt-force head injury.
Lane-Woodall’s case was investigated in 1991 by Sheriff’s Office Detectives Chuck Thomas and J.D. Driver, resulting in the conviction of Lane and Lane-Woodall’s biological mother, Stephanie Pinson, according to the release. Pinson was convicted on a charge of accessory after the fact of child abuse. She was sentenced to two years in jail.