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March 10, 2010 in City, Idaho
Family: Jealousy, abuse led to deadly shooting
Idaho State Police Detective Terry Morgan holds a weapon seized from where Chad Lee Moore, 35, was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Hayden. Police had been looking for Moore in connection with a fatal shooting at a Hayden apartment complex Tuesday.
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When Ryan William Taylor showed up at a Hayden apartment Tuesday afternoon, he was there to confront the husband of his ex-wife – a man he believed had been abusing her.
But Taylor, 28, never left the property alive. The man he confronted fired four rounds at Taylor, family members say, one striking him in the back of the head.
A search team from Kootenai and Spokane counties found the suspected gunman, Chad Lee Moore, dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound Wednesday morning east of Hayden Lake. After an overnight manhunt, searchers found Moore’s pickup truck, which had been burned, before spotting his body on a logging road about one mile north of Triangle 7 Road and Hayden Creek Road.
Moore, 35, had a handgun and a military-style rifle with several ammo clips, said Maj. Dan Mattos of the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department.
“One conclusion drawn is that perhaps he was lying in wait for police, but we’ll never know because he took his own life,” Mattos said.
Investigators believe he set fire to the truck before walking down the road and shooting himself.
Moore’s wife, Amber Kern, previously was married to Taylor. Nine months pregnant with Moore’s baby, Kern was taken to a hospital Wednesday but was not expected to give birth immediately, said Taylor’s mother, Barbara Taylor.
Mattos said Moore and Ryan Taylor had ongoing problems.
Barbara Taylor said Kern had called her Tuesday and said Moore had hit her after asking if she’d been talking to Ryan Taylor on the phone. Taylor was out on a birthday shopping trip with his friend and daughter, Jordan, who turns 12 Friday. The three stopped by Moore and Kern’s apartment at 10102 N. Government Way, where Taylor found Moore armed with a loaded handgun, Barbara Taylor said.
“He’s always been the good guy, the defender,” she said of her youngest son, who was pronounced dead at Kootenai Medical Center.
Taylor and Kern were married 10 years and still had a good relationship, Barbara Taylor said.
“Chad Moore was very jealous of that. He didn’t even like the two of them talking,” she said.
Taylor’s oldest daughter, Jordan, witnessed the shooting at about 2:50 p.m. outside a building at the Lakeview Village apartment complex, Barbara Taylor said. She said the family will seek counseling for the girl, who lived with her father and half-sisters, Dakota and Kaylaa.
A neighbor said Moore and Kern lived in separate apartments before they met and moved in together. Court records show they were married in April 2009, about two months after Kern and Taylor divorced.
Taylor worked construction but was laid off this winter, his mother said. A neighbor said Moore worked in the trucking business, and Kern is a nurse.
The Grail bar and nightclub in Huetter will host a benefit Saturday to raise money for Taylor’s funeral. Grail co-owner Larry Sumner said Taylor “had a lot of things going for him.”
“He was a really good father and a good person,” Sumner said.
Taylor recently bought his daughters motorcycle equipment. He wanted to get them involved in outdoor activities at an early age, Barbara Taylor said.
She struggled to understand why Moore did what he did.
“If he’s going to shoot himself anyway, why did he take my son’s life?” she asked. “My poor baby.”
Slaying suspect’s body found 
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msledder on March 10 at 12:54 p.m.
Well good for him. He admitted his guilt and saved the tax payers a lot of money with just a simple pull of the trigger.
misjustice on March 10 at 1:28 p.m.
Too bad Moore didn’t just go out into the woods and kill himself, instead of killing another human being first…
This is puzzling and sad, no matter how you look at it…
Why did he kill Taylor???
The kids are the losers in this; both dads are dead.
JSStewart on March 10 at 1:44 p.m.
There are alot of victims here. Chad had 2 children also and his wife was expecting. What you don’t know is that Taylor had assaulted Chad multiple times in the past to the point that he required medical attention.
Did he deserve to be shot and killed? Who knows, but why was he at Chad’s apartment to begin with?
tisha on March 10 at 1:45 p.m.
This man is nothing but a good man he toook his life and it hurt alot of people and maybe what happen to taylor was for good reasons ok not alot of people have to die but some do for there actions so for all you people that are saying that it was good for moore to die well no it hurt his family including me as i am his family ok so if you have nothing nice to say about this man then dont leave a comment because we all sufer for him we love him thanks for taking your time for readin this but i dont have time for your childish games noone likes rude people if this was your family is this pastion you would be pissed off if people were saying mad stuff keep it to your seld thanks we will miss you Chad Lee Moore Family Love You
Howard_Martinson on March 10 at 2:06 p.m.
What a tragedy.
spokanada on March 10 at 2:10 p.m.
Are there police records of these alleged assaults?
If he was defending himself then why did he then shoot himself?
Did he have a restraining order against the victim?
JSStewart on March 10 at 2:42 p.m.
There ARE reports that were filed.
Who knows why he fled? Taylor was in Chad’s apartment and things became violent. Taylor fled when Chad started shooting and was hit in the back of the head….how does that look?
Regardless, Taylor was no saint and was a violent man who pushed too hard and got what was coming to him.
spokanada on March 10 at 2:45 p.m.
So he shot a guy in the back of the head. That doesn’t sound like self defense.
SugarShane on March 10 at 3:02 p.m.
There are not enough details to do anything but speculate.
JSStewart on March 10 at 3:11 p.m.
He starts shooting at the guy and the guy turns to run = self defense with the suspect shot in the back of the head.
west on March 10 at 5:30 p.m.
Good for him! saves us lots of trial money!
force_vector on March 10 at 7:53 p.m.
What spokanada said is exactly right. Shooting someone in the back of the head is chicken sh!t and defined as murder, not self defense. I’m willing to bet both of these gentlemen, and the wife, have/had issues. The sad part is there are now kids with no father, one undoubtedly traumatized from witnessing the shooting, and what one could speculate as a less than stable home environment that has now become exponentially worse than before. Very sad.
CharlesBillford on March 10 at 8:21 p.m.
Sorta like trading a good guy for a loser. Some women will never learn.
Listof7 on March 10 at 8:44 p.m.
A few things & to be clear I don’t know any of these people, I’m just an observer…
‘veI often notice how quick people are to say “He deserved to DIE” I agree - society is better off with some people dead, but we’re talking extreme, not a guy who FIST FIGHTS or who lives a different life style than you do.
Second, we weren’t there, but I can see a gun shot to the back of the head as POSSIBLY self defense — picture — guys burst into your home, says I’m gonna FKing kill you and comes at you, you live in N.ID so you have a gun close by, you draw your gun and fire a few quick rounds. Now, while you’re firing (possibly low because you don’t reallky want to kill someone), the other guy does an about face, a 180, and slips (now he’s low), your aim has wandered (as it often does after a few quick shots) and a stray or ricochet hits a mark. People seem to think it’s like TV or it’s easy and everything is clear, it’s not, things get wild quick and your thoughts are very limited basically “I want to live” and that’s on both ends.
As for the suicide, I’m not saying I know what happened, I don’t, but I can imagine more than one scenario. We already have “he murder on purpose so he took his own life” which is possible, though I wonder, since someone who has made the CHOICE to kill their “enemy” would most likely feel justified. It’s more likely tom me that things got out of hand, someone got killed and REMORSE set in, SHAME set in and this guy couldn’t face it long enough to make it through. If I killed a man, killed a father, I might looked back and think, “I didn’t need to do that, I could’ve took the beating, now I’ve killed a man, I don’t deserve to live either. It’s possible. I actually get sick of people who’ve often never even been in a fist fight who think killing is just so easy to deal with, NO MATTER WHAT THE REASON IS.
I agree that this is a sad day for the FAMILIES involved, no matter what or why, there are Mothers, Children, wives, Friends and Fathers who will miss these men, who loved these men.
My last comment is for the wives and X’s. When you end a relationship and a new one begins, it’s wrong to go whine to your X on an ongoing basis, to even talk against your new lover to your X, it’s betrayal. Sure, if it’s a one time thing, you get beat for no reason and need help, CALL, but when the fights are about the calls and you fight so you can call…well, to me, you’re asking for something like this.
BE LOYAL TO SOMEONE NEXT TIME!
alykat on March 10 at 10:05 p.m.
I have known Chad for about 6 years, and while I had lost contact with him the past year and a half I will always remember the bright spot he was at the gym he worked out at. He was motivated, driven, and positive. Chad Moore offered kind advice and genuine smiles to everyone around him. The last time I spoke with Chad he had told me he was getting married and was excited to have finally met the love of his life and share that with his own two kids. While he made a tragic mistake let’s not forget that the real victims are the kids involved that are now without a father, who loved them more than anything and also Chad’s wife who not only lost her friend, Ryan, but also lost her husband. May we all find forgiveness and grace for everyone that crosses paths in our life.
Orange on March 11 at 5:29 a.m.
This is just too twisted to read. Mr Moore, if he hadn’t taken his own life would be facing Murder 1st charges by now.
In the back of the head????
And what makes this even more twisted is a nightclub is paying for the funeral.
Isn’t this a typical north Idaho soap opera??
tisha on March 11 at 1:52 p.m.
Look Chad did what he did because Ryan was abusing Chad. Chad was good man had great respect and Amber put those two men in a pastion noone wants to be in. if you get married to someone you better know that you wanna be with that man or women because Amber would call Ryan and tell him Chad was a bad man and Ryan would come over a Beat the crap out of him. The night that Ryan died Ryan came to the house and it got violent was Chad supose to take it no so he took a gun and started to shoot but Chad had no intenchen in killing that man. Chad never has laid a hand on a women he was raised better then that. Chad comes from a family of lovers not fighters. Amber is telling everyone including the Taylor family that Chad laid a hand on her well if thats the case then why didnt she go to the cops instead of going to the ex well that tells you right there that she enojoyed seeing Chad get abuses. Chad didnt want to do what he did that why he killed himself who would want to live another day with a women who dont give a crap about his feelings and another day of what had happen if Amber would have never put those men a a pastion like that then the Chad and Ryan would be alive today so if anyone is going to blame it on Chad then you have anther thing coming your way because thats not even how the story is. if you have anything to say let me know because yall needa get the story straight thanks for taking your time and readin this have a nice day. R.I.P Chad Lee Moore Family and Friends Will Miss You
jaden2001 on March 12 at 1:38 p.m.
This is a very said thing. My prayers go out to both families. This should have never happened, the men have always been played against each other. They were both good men. A note to all - think before you react.
On another note: thank you to the Grail in assisting with the Taylor’s family.
jules on March 12 at 9:50 p.m.
to List of 7 - “if you get beat for no reason?” What would be an appropriate reason for beating your pregnant wife?
spokanecommunistparty on March 13 at 11:34 a.m.
Go for the pepper spray first, gun is a last resort. Justified shootings are incredibly rare (unless you’re a rich buisness guy in Coeur d’Alene) . Maby we all should take a moment to Google self defense laws and tactics. Its good to be prepared. Sorry for your loss.