May 10, 2009 in City

Dispute in bar turns deadly

Post Falls man arrested in shooting

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An apparent barroom altercation turned deadly early Saturday morning in Coeur d’Alene.

Timothy I. Williams, who went by the name Timothy Wolfe, of Worley, Idaho, was shot in the head about 2:15 a.m. Saturday as he and a group friends were walking near Third Street and Indiana in downtown Coeur d’Alene.

Wolfe, 21, a member of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, was taken to Kootenai Medical Center, where he later was declared clinically dead. Juan C. Aldana Villanueva, 22, of Post Falls, was arrested later Saturday on charges of first-degree murder.

“The whole Coeur d’Alene Tribe is mourning (Wolfe’s) loss,” said Chairman Chief Allan. “He was a great young man. He had a lot of potential. A great smile, a great personality. He was loved by everybody.”

Witnesses told police that Wolfe and Villanueva argued late Friday night at Mik-n-Mac’s, a bar at 406 N. Fourth St., Coeur d’Alene police Sgt. Christie Wood said in a news release. Villanueva was told to leave by bar management, the news release said.

After the bar closed, Wolfe and his friends were walking in the area when Villanueva allegedly pulled up in his car and fired one shot, which hit Wolfe in the head. Villanueva then fled the scene, police said.

With help from the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department and the Post Falls Police Department, Coeur d’Alene police arrested Villanueva at Rancho Viejo Mexican restaurant, 2526 E. Seltice Way, in Post Falls, at about 11:20 a.m. There were no patrons in the restaurant at the time, and the four employees there told police they didn’t know where Villanueva was hiding. After a room-by-room search by members of the Post Falls SWAT team, he was found inside a locked restroom, police said.

Wolfe was a talented basketball player, Allan said. The three-year starter for Lakeside High School in Plummer, Idaho, was named to the 1A All-Idaho first team as a senior point guard in 2005. The Knights finished fourth in state in 2004, and advanced to the semifinals the following season, when he led his team with an average of 19 points, according to The Spokesman-Review’s archives.

He also participated in track and played football. In July 2005, he was selected to play on the eight-man North Team in the Calam Shrine North/South All-Star Football Classic at the University of Idaho’s Kibbie Dome.

He was a student at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Mont., where this past March he scored 14 points in helping the Salish Kootenai College Bison win the American Indian Higher Education Consortium national championship. In recent summers, he played Coeur d’Alene summer league softball.

His parents, Charlotte Nilson and Tim Williams, live in Worley, as does his toddler daughter and a large extended family, Allan said.

“It’s hard,” Allan said. “The community is saddened today.”

Services are pending, Allan said.

Five comments on this story so far. Add yours!

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  cougeagle on May 10 at 9:24 p.m.

  R.I.P.

  I just wish more people would visit a gym rather than a gun store. Hey faux tough guys out there…yeah you…..using your fists makes you more of a man than using a gun.

  Gun are for COWARDS!

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  ONELOVE on May 11 at 9:22 a.m.

  Tim will be greatly missed. People should think before taking action because you dont know what effect your doing, not only to Tim but all the people who deeply cared for him. His poor baby girl which he called “honey” now has to grow up without her dad.

  ~RIP~TIM~LOVE YA ALWAYS AND FOREVER

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  nslopeofw on May 11 at 9:51 a.m.

  Not just guns are not for cowards, fighting with fists/knives/guns, etc. are for cowards. Words are for real men.
  This is a sad story, in a society that needs to severely punish people like this. He should get the death penalty for premeditated. We need to send a message to all the other whimps out there that solve their lack of manhood problems with weapons. “Kill, and you get killed, too”

  My heart goes out to the family and community of this young man who’s life was cut short by a coward-loser.

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  AlaskanJules on May 12 at 6:39 p.m.

  This was just a waste to the guy that pulled the gun”what the HE## were you thinking you have a child at home.
  To all you gang bangers you better start thinking of the lives your affecting before you go pulling a dmn gun out.
  To Tim’s Family my Heart goes out to you and to TIA LEAH and her LIL Girl,I love you and be strong,It’s hard to do believe me but you just look at your LIL Girl everyday and remember Tim is a part of her!!!!!

  Love Ya
  Julie
  Alaska

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  eagleproducer on May 14 at 9:52 a.m.

  cougeagle: Using your brains makes you even more of a man.

  Looks like we get the best from Mexico. Gotta love those “poor, tired, huddled masses” streaming across our southern border.