A Kootenai County jury took about seven hours Friday to convict a 16-year-old boy of murdering his father and brother in a bloody attack inside their Coeur d’Alene house almost two years ago. Eldon Gale Samuel III was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing 13-year-old Jonathan Samuel and second-degree murder for killing Eldon Samuel Jr., 46. He committed the crimes when he was 14. Samuel could be sent to prison for the rest of his life. First District Judge Benjamin Simpson will impose the sentence in about 10 weeks.

The jury of eight men and four women began deliberating just after noon Friday and reached a verdict shortly before 7 p.m. Samuel stood for the verdict, and Kootenai County Public Defender John Adams stood with his arm around him. “I am heartbroken that yet again Eldon has been let down by adults that should have protected him,” Adams said in a statement Friday night/Scott Maben, SR. More here.