Jury hears more about slain brother

by David Cole Staff Writer
| January 23, 2016 6:00 AM

COEUR d'ALENE — Jurors in teenager Eldon Samuel III's double-murder trial learned just a little more Friday about Jonathan Samuel, the brother who was 11 months younger, autistic and brutally shot and chopped with a machete on March 24, 2014.

Witnesses called by Eldon Samuel's defense team shared anecdotes about the younger boy in brief periods on the witness stand in the 1st District Court trial. Samuel, who is 16 and being tried as an adult, is charged with murder for killing his 13-year-old brother and their father, Eldon Samuel Jr., in a Coeur d'Alene home.

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