His wife, Gennell Eubanks, said in a phone interview that her husband said he was trying to help his brother during a fight in the 1981 killing.
“He said it was an accident and he didn’t mean to do that,” she said. “He was trying to help his brother.”
The man she knows as Roy Eubanks has arthritis, a Pacemaker and walks with a cane, she said. She has never spoken to his relatives, some of whom she believes live in Pennsylvania, and said he hadn’t seen them since he fled.
“They didn’t want him to come back,” she said. “They told him to leave.”