Jury to decide Eldon Samuel’s fate
A jury is about to decide what kind of killer Eldon Gale Samuel III was the night he shot his father and then attacked his younger brother with guns, a knife and a machete in their tiny house in Coeur d’Alene. Was he an abused and neglected 14-year-old boy acting out of self-defense and uncontrollable rage, as his defense team has argued in the three-week murder trial in 1st District Court? Or, as prosecutors have portrayed, did Samuel kill willfully and deliberately – and savagely when it came to his 13-year-old brother Jonathan, an autistic child cowering in his refuge under his bed as their father bled to death a few feet away/Scott Maben, SR. More here.