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Shootout: Suspect Died Over $40 Of Booze

A spokesperson for the Idaho State Liquor Control Board has shed new light on what led up to a deadly shooting near Ponderay Monday afternoon. The spokesperson tells KREM 2's Erik Hedlund the suspect walked out of the liquor store in the Bonner Mall with $40 worth of booze. When the clerk confronted the man, he pulled out a wooden club and said "do you want some of this?". Investigators on the scene of an officer-involved shooting north of Sandpoint, ID/Devon Haskins, KREM2. More here. Bonner County Bee story here.

The clerk let the man go and called police, who followed the suspect's car out of the parking lot.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.