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2nd arrest may have ties to slaying of Bo Kirk

A Hayden man in federal custody on a weapons violation lives at the home searched by police Friday in connection with the killing of a North Idaho X-ray technician, records show.

Justin Roy Booth, 36, was arrested Friday and is being held on a charge of being a felon in possession of a gun. He is being held in the Bonner County Jail, where federal inmates in North Idaho are kept.

Booth, who lives at 1319 E. Miles Ave., was questioned Friday by FBI Special Agent Edward Jacobson and Sgt. Ken Lallatin with the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, and subsequently was arrested.

Lallatin is the detective who on Friday arrested David E. Hutto, 44, on a charge of second-degree murder in the shooting death of William “Bo” Kirk. The county prosecutor’s office alleges Hutto killed Kirk in an apparent road-rage incident.

Detectives on Friday also searched the Miles Avenue residence where they said Hutto had been living. They spent several hours there processing and collecting evidence, the sheriff’s office said.

Hutto was arrested that evening at a Burger King restaurant in Coeur d’Alene. He is being held in the Kootenai County Jail on $2 million bail.

Public records show that Booth has lived at the Miles Avenue residence since March 2015/Scott Maben, SR. More here.



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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