{"id":1792,"date":"2010-08-30T18:35:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T01:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2011-03-29T13:41:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T20:41:54","slug":"john-booth-jr-prosecutors-considering-increasing-charges-to-capital-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"John Booth Jr.: Prosecutors considering increasing charges to capital crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5622\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2010.0830.booth.first_.appearance_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5622\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5622\" title=\"booth first appearance\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2010.0830.booth.first_.appearance_2.jpg\" alt=\"2010.0830.booth.first.appearance_2\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2010.0830.booth.first_.appearance_2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2010.0830.booth.first_.appearance_2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Allen Booth Jr. sits with defense attorney Bob Schroeter in a Chehalis courtroom this afternoon.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211; Prosecutors upgraded the charges when triple-homicide suspect John Allen Booth Jr. appeared in court today and said they may do so again, possibly charging the Onalaska man with aggravated first-degree murders, making it a potential death penalty case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;ve indicated to the court we&#8217;re seriously considering that,&#8221; Deputy Prosecutor Brad Meagher told the judge this afternoon in the Chehalis courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Booth was shackled and wearing red and white striped jail garb when he faced Lewis County Superior Court Judge Richard Brosey.<\/p>\n<p>Booth, 31, is accused in last weekend&#8217;s slayings inside a Onalaska-Salkum area home that left three people dead and one seriously wounded. The sheriff has said he believe the shootings were related to a drug debt collection.<\/p>\n<p>The victims include David J. West Sr. 52, his son David J. West Jr., 16, and Tony E. Williams, 50, of Randle. Each died of a gunshot in the head, according to the coroner&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The senior West&#8217;s live-in girlfriend, Denise Salts, 51, survived a gunshot wound to her face.<\/p>\n<p>Booth remains held on $10 million bail.<\/p>\n<p>His arraignment is scheduled for one week from this coming Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u2022\u2022<br \/>\nMore later.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, if you haven&#8217;t read Lewis County Sirens&#8217; weekend story about how the state Department of Corrections revealed after the shootings that Booth and his community corrections officer didn&#8217;t meet for several months &#8211; when the minimum number of contacts required for a high risk violent offender is four times each month &#8211; click<a title=\"&quot;John Booth Jr.: State prison doesn't know if it was closely enough monitoring ex-convict charged in triple homicide&quot; from Saturday Aug. 28, 2010 at 10:44 a.m.\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1762\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; Prosecutors upgraded the charges when triple-homicide suspect John Allen Booth Jr. appeared in court today and said they may do so again, possibly charging the Onalaska man with aggravated first-degree murders, making it a potential death penalty case. &#8220;I think we&#8217;ve indicated to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5625,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/5625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}