Article: CHASKA SLAYING; 'Head or chest?' the killer asked her; The gunman told police he posed that question to Nancy Everson before she was shot in her home, with her son allegedly at his side.(NEWS)

Byline: Paul Levy; Pam Louwagie; Staff Writers

Careful not to make a sound, the two men opened the door to the bedroom where Nancy and Tom Everson slept unaware of the evil in their midst.

The men, thin and barely out of their teens, stood with box cutters and a .20-gauge shotgun when Nancy stirred. They froze. Could they go through with it? Could they slit the Eversons' throats? One backed out of the room; the other followed. Grant Everson couldn't kill his parents, he told his friend Joel Beckrich, according to charges released Wednesday that lay out the alleged events surrounding the killing early Sunday in Chaska. Beckrich said he couldn't do it, ...

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