Sheriff’s office fills in details of shooting investigation
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI)-Taylor R. Murrieta, 31, of Idaho Falls has been pronounced dead after spending several days on life-support. Murrieta was shot by Donald T. Randall, 42, of Bonneville County.
The Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office said the two were involved in an altercation in the 3100 block of North Yellowstone Highway at around 11:30 p.m. February 16.
Randall told deputies Murrieta had been following him in a separate vehicle on North Yellowstone, trying to get him to pull over. Both stopped in the road, got out of their vehicles, and into an altercation. After returning to his vehicle, Randall called dispatch to report the incident and claimed Murrieta was attempting to pull him out of his vehicle.
Deputies respond to 3 separate incidents of lost snowmobilers
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The following is a news release from the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office.
Over the last week, Bonneville County Sheriff deputies and Search and Rescue personnel have responded to three separate incidents of lost snowmobilers in our backcountry.
The first of those in the McCoy Creek area on Monday afternoon when a 66-year-old man was late returning to the Alpine area. Deputies received the call just before 4 p.m. and responded with Search and Rescue volunteers and medics from Idaho Falls Fire Department.
Apparently the man’s snowmobile broke down around 11:30 a.m. and the rest of his party continued back to Alpine while he made attempts to get it fixed. When the man didn’t show, the party contacted dispatch and advised them of the situation.
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On Monday evening, a Rexburg Police Department officer shot and killed a 50-year-old man at an apartment complex while responding to a complaint about an âunwanted subject.â
The events leading up to the shooting have not been made public, but the incident is the fourth fatal shooting by police in eastern Idaho in a week, and the fifth shooting incident overall.
Eastern Idaho typically sees two to three fatal shootings a year. The past week, however, has seen an unprecedented level of gun violence.
Law enforcement officers also have shot and killed individuals in Idaho Falls, Bingham County and Pocatello. Additionally, a suspect wanted in connection to a break in and shooting incident in Idaho Falls also shot at Chubbuck police officers while fleeing last week. In that incident officers did not return fire.
Man on life support after shooting in Bonneville County
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IDAHO FALLS A man is on life-support with an apparent non-recoverable injury following another shooting incident in eastern Idaho Tuesday evening.
The Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office reports deputies were called to the scene of two men fighting in the middle of the road in the 3100 block of North Yellowstone Highway. Before deputies arrived on the scene, a witness told dispatchers on the phone they heard a gunshot, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Bryan Lovell said in a news release.
Deputies located one of the men, who had been shot. Emergency responders rushed the victim to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Lovell said deputies were later told the victim’s injuries “were non-survivable,” but the individual was still on life support.