A 14-year-old boy has been charged with killing his father and brother in their temporary housing unit in Idaho.
The boy, Eldon Samuel III, told police that he hated his brother and then launched into a conversation about his love of Grand Theft Auto, the video game.
He allegedly shot his father four times with a pistol before using a shotgun to shoot his younger brother once before attacking him with a knife and machete.
The Spokesman Review reports that Eldon is being charged as an adult and claimed that his father was abusive.
The double murder took place in their temporary housing unit in the town of Coeur d’Alene on Monday.
Eldon said that his father, Eldon Samuel Jr., had been taking unspecified medication and talking about zombies that night when he went outside and fired a .45 caliber pistol in the air.
When the father, 46, came back in the house, he got into an argument with Eldon and the boy said that his dad shoved him twice in the chest.
At that point, Eldon says he took the gun and shot his father in the stomach.
His father did not die immediately following that shot, and was reportedly crawling to his other son's room.
Eldom told police that he feared his father was 'coming after him' and so Eldon proceeded to shoot him two times in the cheek and a final time in his temple.
He then reportedly switched firearms and got a shotgun to shoot his brother who was hiding under his bed.
It is unclear who owned the guns and whether or not they were purchased legally.
Eldon then stabbed his brother Jonathan with both a machete and knife.
'Eldon physically demonstrated the manner in which he held and used the machete,' the investigators wrote in their report.
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