Oregon Teenaged Boy Kills Foster Father and Foster Uncle-Adult Deaths UPDATED

This was a missed case from October 4, 2013.

“One of the men shot and killed by a 14-year-old boy during a deer-hunting trip in northeastern Oregon was the teenager’s foster father, authorities revealed today.

The boy, who has not been named because of his age, allegedly shot his foster father Michael Piete, 43, and Kenneth C. Gilliland, 64, at midnight on Wednesday.

A hunting rifle and a revolver were used in the incident and one of the men was shot inside their cabin while the other was shot outside, Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer said.

After the shootings, he fled the cabin but accidentally shot himself in the leg. He returned to the cabin to pleading for help, but another member of the hunting party inside tied him up with duct tape and held him at gunpoint.

While he was being watched, another man, who owns the cabin just outside the Umatilla National Forest, drove about nine miles to the town of Granite, where he woke someone who called for help.

Deputies arrived at the cabin and found the boy taped to a chair.

The teenager was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Baker City then flown with a state police trooper to St. Alphonsus Hospital in Boise

He is expected to recover from the injury, police said, but a hospital official refused to confirm he was there or give his condition.

District Attorney Ryan Joslin has not said whether the boy would be charged and officers would not say whether a motive had been established.

The group, all from Baker City, Oregon, had been on a deer hunting trip at the cabin on private property in Oregon’s Blue Mountains.

Mr Piete, who appears to have a large family in his Facebook photographs, is seen enjoying fishing, hunting and the outdoors on his social networking profile.”

Revealed: One man shot dead by boy, 14, during Oregon hunting trip was his foster father
[Daily Mail 10/4/13]

“Records show a 14-year-old boy accused of shooting and killing his foster father and another man at a hunting camp in northeastern Oregon earlier this month has a history of behavioral problems, although he was never prosecuted.

Deer-hunting camp slayings suspect, 14, has history of behavioral problems, officials say[Oregon Live 10/18/13 by Associated Press]

“A judge is hearing evidence on whether to try a 15-year-old boy as an adult in the slayings last October of the boy’s foster father and another man at a hunting cabin in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon. Three weeks have been set aside starting Monday in Grant County Circuit Court in Canyon City to hear evidence in the case. The boy has been held on two juvenile counts of aggravated murder. The Associated Press has not used his name because of his age. He is accused of shooting Michael Piete of Baker City and Piete’s uncle, Kenneth Gilliland, at a hunting cabin outside Granite. Authorities haven’t described a motive. Juvenile records show the boy had a history of behavioral problems, and his foster parents had received special training.”

Hearing Starts For Teen Accused Of Shooting Foster Father[The Dove 9/8/14 by Jim Mc Coy]

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Update:”A defense lawyer says a 15-year-old boy who shot and killed his foster father and another man at a hunting cabin in northeastern Oregon never meant to kill anyone.

Katie Berger said Wednesday that the boy had the emotional maturity of a 9-year-old after years of abuse, foster care, and juvenile treatment, and shouldn’t have been around loaded guns.

The boy had told State Police he was fearful of wolves and accidentally shot one victim while firing at what he thought were a pair of eyes in the dark. The boy said he got scared and fired wildly into an upstairs loft, hitting his foster father.

Berger says the boy made admissions Wednesday in Grant County Court to the juvenile equivalent of manslaughter and was placed in state custody.”

Teen admits killing foster father, another man hunting cabin[Komo News 12/17/14 by Jeff Barnard]