Two CdA schools locked down

Two Coeur d’Alene schools were locked down about 30 minutes Monday morning as police searched unsuccessfully for a man in a blue pickup truck who may have been holding a rifle near Skyway Elementary School.

Two students told a Skyway counselor about 9 a.m. – just minutes after the first bell rang – that they had seen the man holding a rifle near the wooded area by the school’s soccer fields. That prompted a lockdown at Skyway and, less than a mile from there, Woodland Middle School. Nearby Lake City High School, about a half mile from Skyway, was kept open.

Officers could not find the suspect or a blue pickup, Coeur d’Alene Police said.

In a lockdown, all windows and doors are locked and the blinds are pulled. Students stay under their desks until the lockdown is over.

Anyone with information is asked to call the police at (208) 769-2291 or an automated tip line at (208) 769-2296.

Huetter

Stabbing suspect charged as adult

A 15-year-old Hayden boy suspected of stabbing a Coeur d’Alene man in the abdomen has been charged with attempted murder and will be tried as an adult, the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.

Corey Alan Wood is accused of stabbing 20-year-old Bradley S. Brumbaugh during a brief struggle late Friday night in a trailer park on Galloway Circle in Huetter.

Brumbaugh was rushed into surgery that night and was not at Kootenai Medical Center as of Monday afternoon.

The altercation was part of an ongoing dispute the two were having over harassing phone calls Wood was making to Brumbaugh’s wife, Alicia Sullivan, sheriff’s Capt. Ben Wolfinger said.

Earlier reports referred to the suspect as a female.

Sandpoint

Church wants new, west-side site

Sandpoint’s St. Joseph Catholic Church wants to build a new church and school on the west side of town.

The church is asking the city for a conditional use permit to build a 36,000-square-foot church on about nine acres at the northeast corner of Ontario Street and Lincoln Avenue.

Plans also call for a 25,000-square-foot school. The Planning Commission is having a public hearing tonight on the proposal.

City Planner Joan Bramblee said the church plans to sell its current campus on Oak Street.

For more information, call the Planning Department at (208) 263-3370.

– Compiled from staff reports