04-22-2014, 08:45 PM
17 year-old Skylor Atilano -- should he be tried as an adult or a juvenile for bashing his 11 year-old brother's head in and burying him in a shallow grave?
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Last Thursday, a juvenile court judge today ordered the Riverside County probation department to prepare a report recommending whether the juvenile half brother of Terry Smith Jr. should be tried for murder as a juvenile or an adult.
Judge Timothy Freer will have the final say after reviewing the probation department's report regarding Skylor Atilano, who was 16 when he was arrested last July and charged with the murder of 11-year-old Terry Smith Jr. in Menifee. Atilano remains in custody at the Southwest Justice Center in French Valley.
The judge set a court date of June 12 to receive the probation department's report.
Atilano is accused of killing Terry Smith Jr. whose body was found buried in a shallow grave in the family backyard following a three-day search by thousands of residents throughout the valley.
Meanwhile, the boys' mother (Shawna Smith) says she's standing by Skylor no matter what, that he's doing well in juvie and working towards his high-school diploma, that authorities are kinda keeping her in the dark because she's the mother of both the victim and the suspect, and that she's never asked Skylor about the incident (I don't understand that last bit -- I'd wanna know exactly what went down if one of my family members was alleged to have killed another one).
Sources:
http://www.menifee247.com/2014/04/probat...ilano.html
http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-c...d-teen.ece
Last Thursday, a juvenile court judge today ordered the Riverside County probation department to prepare a report recommending whether the juvenile half brother of Terry Smith Jr. should be tried for murder as a juvenile or an adult.
Judge Timothy Freer will have the final say after reviewing the probation department's report regarding Skylor Atilano, who was 16 when he was arrested last July and charged with the murder of 11-year-old Terry Smith Jr. in Menifee. Atilano remains in custody at the Southwest Justice Center in French Valley.
The judge set a court date of June 12 to receive the probation department's report.
Atilano is accused of killing Terry Smith Jr. whose body was found buried in a shallow grave in the family backyard following a three-day search by thousands of residents throughout the valley.
Meanwhile, the boys' mother (Shawna Smith) says she's standing by Skylor no matter what, that he's doing well in juvie and working towards his high-school diploma, that authorities are kinda keeping her in the dark because she's the mother of both the victim and the suspect, and that she's never asked Skylor about the incident (I don't understand that last bit -- I'd wanna know exactly what went down if one of my family members was alleged to have killed another one).
Sources:
http://www.menifee247.com/2014/04/probat...ilano.html
http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-c...d-teen.ece