The Mendocino County Courthouse in Ukiah, Calif., on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. The current courthouse was erected in 1950. (Sydney Fishman/Bay City News)

UKIAH, CA., 10/22/26 — A Mendocino County jury Wednesday found a Ukiah man guilty of second-degree murder in the death of a 1-year-old boy, one of two brothers left for hours beside the railroad tracks in Ukiah on a hot August afternoon in 2022, according to a statement the District Attorney’s Office posted on Facebook.

It was the second trial on the same facts for Edward Two Feathers Steele, 36, of Ukiah.

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