{"id":9830,"date":"2011-12-02T17:42:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T01:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=9830"},"modified":"2011-12-03T02:43:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T10:43:16","slug":"news-brief-salkum-triple-murder-trial-on-court-schedule-for-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=9830","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Salkum triple murder trial on court schedule for next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211; Attorneys confirmed with a judge this afternoon the triple murder trial for former Onalaskan John A. Booth Jr. is a go for next week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6017\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2010.1019.john_.booth.small_2.newest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6017\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6017\" title=\"John A. Booth Jr., small newest\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2010.1019.john_.booth.small_2.newest.jpg\" alt=\"2010.1019.john.booth.small_2.newest\" width=\"135\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John A. Booth Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Booth, 32, is charged with murder and other offenses related to the August 2010 gunshot deaths of two men and a teenage boy inside a Salkum-Onalaska area home. Booth is also charged with attempted murder of a woman in the same house the same night.<\/p>\n<p>Jury selection in Lewis County Superior Court is expected to begin at 9:30 on Monday, Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Brad Meagher said today.<\/p>\n<p>Opening statements by the lawyers may not occur until Tuesday, Meagher said.<\/p>\n<p>The judge has said he thought the trial might last a week to 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege Booth and Ryan J. McCarthy visited the house on Wings Way in connection with collecting money for drug debts or a &#8220;perceived&#8221; debt owed to Robert &#8220;Robbie&#8221; S. Russell. One of the victims, David West Sr. 52, was a witness in a pending case against Russell.<\/p>\n<p>Also shot dead were David West Jr., 16, and a friend Tony E. Williams, 50, of Randle. Denise Salts, then 51, survived a gunshot wound to her face.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy, 32, was sentenced in September to a little more than 14 years for his role in the case following a plea deal.<br \/>\n\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Read &#8220;Court hearing reveals more details about Salkum triple slaying&#8221; from Saturday Oct. 1,\u00a0 2011, <a title=\"&quot;Court hearing reveals more details about Salkum triple slaying&quot; from Saturday Oct. 1,  2011\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=8755\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; Attorneys confirmed with a judge this afternoon the triple murder trial for former Onalaskan John A. Booth Jr. is a go for next week. Booth, 32, is charged with murder and other offenses related to the August 2010 gunshot deaths of two men and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-9830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830","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=9830"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9833,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions\/9833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}