Eureka man gets 30-year term for killing father
Joshua Joseph Sauls looks toward family members during a May 13, 2024, hearing in which he pleaded guilty to mitigated deliberate homicide. Sauls shot and killed his father, John, on May 30, 2022. (Paul Sievers/The Western News)
A Eureka man who pleaded guilty to shooting and killing his father during an incident in a remote part of Lincoln County more than two years ago was sentenced Tuesday in district court to 30 years in the Montana State Prison.
Joshua Joseph Sauls, 26, the son of the victim John Sauls, pleaded guilty to an amended count of mitigated deliberate homicide May 13 in front of District Judge Matt Cuffe.
Sauls was first charged with deliberate homicide after investigators with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said he fired three rounds from a .45 caliber handgun into the back of 64-year-old John Lewis Sauls’ head on May 30, 2022, after both men argued about the alleged molestation of Joshua’s sister.
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