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Arfee Shooting Still Haunts Lake City

Tina Kunishige, near where Arfee was shot by a police officer, is one of many still upset with how Coeur d'Alene has handled the tragedy. She is now one of the leading members involved in the Justice for ARFEE Facebook page. (Inlander Photo: Young Kwak)

Craig Jones makes the entire drive — from a downtown Coeur d'Alene coffee shop to his father's barn in Hayden — like this: sitting in his dog's blood and broken glass, a hole in the van window beside him from the bullet that killed Arfee. "[The van] still smells like him to this day," Jones says. On July 9, a Coeur d'Alene police officer responding to a report of a suspicious van shot Arfee, Jones' 2-year-old black Labrador, in the parking lot of Java on Sherman. Nearly six weeks later, Jones is still reeling. He and Arfee had slept on the same pillow. Arfee was his constant companion on wallpapering jobs and dirt-bike expeditions, a source of joy after Jones' separation from his wife and the death of his mother. Now Jones keeps thinking about the trail of blood in his van, picturing Arfee dragging himself wounded to the back, confused why he had been shot/Daniel Walters, Inlander. More here.

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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