Tampa, Florida -- While attorney Genevieve Torres was calling the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, John Jonchuck was headed to St. Paul's Catholic Church to meet with a priest.
That's where deputies would find him as they checked on his mental illness.
As the church bells ring, Father Bill Swengros says there's a 5-year-old angel looking down from above.
"We know his daughter is with the Lord," says Swengros, of the church on North Dale Mabry Highway.
Swengros had never met 5-year-old Phoebe's dad, John, before Wednesday.
"He called for an appointment and came to see me," says Swengros.
He wanted to join the church and be baptized. Phoebe was by his side.
"For a 5-year-old, she seemed bright, amiable, and self confident," says Swengros.
He says nothing stood out during his meeting even though Jonchuck admitted to having mental issues.
"He wasn't presently under medication," says Swengros.
About 30 minutes in, deputies arrived and came to the same conclusion.
"He didn't seem to be in a danger to anyone else or himself," says Swengros.
But later, Jonchuck would return.
"He came back one or two hours later, a little more agitated, wanted to be baptized right away. He brought his mother with him, and I said we don't do that and said he may find another church," says Swengros.
Instead, investigators say Jonchuck threw his daughter off a bridge to her death.
"Mental illness is a terrible thing all people live with it, but you can't just simply take somebody away because somebody is agitated.
"He was anxious agitated but not threatening an anyways," says Swengros.
Jonchuck is in the Pinellas County Jail charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on a law enforcement officer, and aggravated fleeing and eluding.
