Creat a timeline of events, showing what led up to and include the murder, and what the witnesses saw and/or heard.

An old man living beneath the boy and his father testified that he heard upstairs a fight, the boy shouting, “I’m gonna kill you,” a body hitting the ground, and then he saw the boy running down the stairs.

The boy had, that night, had an argument with his father, which resulted in the boy’s father hitting him twice.

The boy claimed he had been at the movies while his father was murdered, but couldn’t remember the name of the movies or who was in them.

A woman living across the street testified that she saw the boy kill his father through the windows of a passing elevated train.

The boy would returned home several hours after his father had been murdered

Finally, the boy has an extensive list of prior offenses, including trying to slash another teenager with a knife.