Elk Grove man, 19, held in knife attack faces judge on attempted murder charge

The 19-year-old man held in the stabbing of a woman at her Elk Grove home Wednesday formally faced attempted murder charges Friday at his Sacramento arraignment.

Samual Eman Boston looked on from a courtroom’s holding cell as Sacramento Superior Court Commissioner Ken Brody read the attempted murder charge and additional allegations of inflicting great bodily injury and using a knife in the mid-afternoon attack.

Brody ordered Boston to return to court on Dec. 6. Boston remains held without bail at Sacramento County Main Jail.

Boston’s brief afternoon appearance in Sacramento Superior Court came 48 hours after the Wednesday knife attack that sent Elk Grove police swarming to a quiet street in the city’s Lakeside neighborhood, guns and shields in tow, and forced a lockdown of nearby Stonelake Elementary School.

The suspect police later identified as Boston had fled, the wounded woman taken to a hospital where she continues her recovery.

Police arrested Boston about an hour after the 2 p.m. attack several miles from the woman’s Halyard Drive home and booked him into Sacramento County Main Jail.

Darrell Smith

The Sacramento Bee

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Darrell Smith is a local reporter for The Sacramento Bee. He joined The Bee in 2006 and previously worked at newspapers in Palm Springs, Colorado Springs and Marysville. Smith was born and raised at Beale Air Force Base and lives in Elk Grove.