NILES, Mich. (CBS/WSBT) A Michigan jury has found 14-year-old Dakotah Eliason guilty of first-degree murder for killing his grandfather. Eliason was charged as an adult for the March 7 shooting ...

NILES — Dakotah Eliason, who was 14-years-old when he shot and killed his step-grandfather, should know by late May whether he'll have a chance to get out of prison some day. Eliason ...

NILES, Mich. – A young Michigan man serving a life sentence for killing his grandfather at age 14 will get a new sentence and a chance at freedom, a judge said Friday. Dakotah Eliason, now 19 ...

Dakotah Eliason admitted he killed his grandfather five years ago, but he and his lawyers say he should not be serving life in prison without parole. Eliason apologized for hurting so many people ...

NILES — Is Dakotah Eliason a troubled youth who deserves the chance to be rehabilitated and someday get out of prison or a psychopath who needs to be locked up for the rest of his life?

At the age of 14, Dakotah Eliason from Niles was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole for killing 69-year-old Jessie Mills back in 2010. A ruling by the Supreme Court will ...

Those are the questions before a Berrien County judge in a hearing Thursday for Dakotah Eliason. Eliason was a teenager when he killed his step-grandfather Jesse Miles five years ago. The judge ...

DAKOTAH ELIASON: As a 14-year-old in Berrien County, Eliason inexplicably shot his grandfather in the head, killing him. Eliason, now 18, called 911 at his grandmother's request and was ...

In 2010, Dakotah Eliason was sentenced to life without parole for a crime he committed when he was fourteen. As I reported for the magazine last winter, he had stayed up until three in the morning ...

From Rachel Aviv’s January 2nd, 2012 New Yorker article, “No Remorse”: Shortly after midnight on March 6, 2010, Dakotah Eliason sat in a chair in his bedroom with a .38-calibre pistol in his ...

Nineteen-year-old Dakotah Eliason was in a Berrien County court Friday because the U.S. Supreme Court says teens can't automatically be given no-parole sentences. A judge could order a shorter ...

A Berrien County judge has scheduled a hearing on Friday for Dakotah Eliason, who's now 19. He killed his grandfather five years ago and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. But Judge ...