All 12 police officers who fired their weapons in a freeway shootout with a heavily armed suspect in Post Falls last summer were justified in their actions, a North Idaho prosecutor has found. Six Coeur d’Alene police officers, three Post Falls police officers, two Kootenai County sheriff’s deputies and an Idaho State Police trooper exchanged gunfire with Marcus Rael (pictured) at an Interstate 90 overpass June 22. Rael, of Glendale, Arizona, shot at police first and exchanged fire with officers for about 75 seconds at the Spokane Street exit in Post Falls. The gun battle ended when Rael was wounded. No officers were injured. “All shots were fired at Rael to stop the threat he was posing by firing at officers,” Bonner County Prosecuting Attorney Louis Marshall said in a report released Monday through the Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney’s office/Scott Maben, SR. More here.

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