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November 20, 2011 in City, Idaho
Shooting suspect pulled from koi pond
A Spokane man took a plunge into a cold koi fish pond, but couldn’t erase his smell from the police dog that tracked him to his backyard hiding spot early Sunday.
Before being carted off to the pokey, Aaron P. Williams, 23, of Spokane, was checked for hypothermia. He was booked into the Spokane County Jail on a charge of first-degree assault with a firearm, police said.
The arrest came after a shooting just before 2 a.m. in the parking lot of the nearby Goodtymes Pub, 9214 E. Mission Ave., during a confrontation between two groups of men.
One of those involved suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot to the leg, police said.
The shooter ran south from the pub and was tracked by the Spokane Valley police dog to a residence in the 9300 block of East Sinto Avenue.
A small semi-automatic handgun was subsequently found in a residential mail box in the area.
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jessiepn on November 20 at 4:26 p.m.
“A suspect in a shooting outside a Spokane Valley nightspot was arrested by authorities hiding in a backyard koi pond this morning.”
What an odd place for the authorities to be hiding.
Does the Spokesman-Review have copyeditors? Or proofreaders?
Seagraf on November 20 at 4:49 p.m.
My exact thought ! LOL.
misjustice on November 20 at 5:44 p.m.
Gives new meaning to “swimming with the fishes”…
; )
mikep on November 20 at 9:04 p.m.
The current version of the story was changed from an earlier posting to place more emphasis on the koi plunge. Thanks.
RedCedar on November 20 at 10:01 p.m.
Sounds like “Goodtymes” maybe a misnomer in more ways than one.
I’m sure the prosecutor will see it differently, but when I read about a fight in a parking lot of a bar at closing time, my thinking is all participants should be paddled on their butts, have their weapons and other toys taken away, and be made to stand in the corner until they’re sober and think about what they did. I know that legally the person who pulled the trigger is at fault and the person who got shot in the leg is the victim, but to my thinking the whole lot of them are equally guilty of first-degree juvenile stupidity, but nothing much worse. I don’t feel the least bit sorry for any of them. Anybody who doesn’t know that alcohol and firearms are a bad combination, whether in a federal agency or the parking lot of a bar, is beyond instruction and is going to have to learn through painful experience.