In brief: Shooting victim dies, bringing death toll to five
SEATTLE – Another of the teenagers wounded in a Washington state high school shooting has died, raising to five the number of fatalities after a student opened fire in the cafeteria two weeks ago.
Officials at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle said 15-year-old Andrew Fryberg died Friday evening.
Zoe Galasso, 14, was killed during the shooting Oct. 24 by a popular freshman at Marysville-Pilchuck High School. Gia Soriano, also 14, died Oct. 26 at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett and 14-year-old Shaylee Chuckulnaskit died Oct. 31 at the Everett hospital.
The shooter, Jaylen Fryberg, died of a self-inflicted wound.
On Thursday, 14-year-old Nate Hatch was released from Harborview and returned home. He had been shot in the jaw.
The school 30 miles north of Seattle reopened Monday after being closed for a week.
Man, 20, faces charges in 5-month-old son’s slaying
A man is in the Nez Perce County Jail on a charge of first-degree murder after being accused of causing the death of his 5-month-old son.
Lewiston police and paramedics were called to a home on Bryden Avenue on Oct. 29 on a report that the infant was unconscious and not breathing. Jordan B. Bigman-Gossage was taken to a local hospital and transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle within hours, according to a police department news release. The infant had sustained severe brain trauma and died Oct. 31.
Police say the infant’s death was the result of a “non-accidental traumatic event.” Cody A. Gossage, 20, has been arrested in connection to the boy’s death.
Police investigate bomb-like device found in parking lot
Spokane police briefly shut down Market Street after a device that appeared to be a bomb was discovered in a McDonald’s parking lot in northeast Spokane.
Spokane police Capt. Eric Olsen said the object was discovered about 5 p.m. The restaurant, at 3416 N. Market St., was closed and workers “sheltered in place,” Olsen said. The department’s Explosives Disposal Unit “rendered it safe” about 7:15 p.m. and determined the device was not explosive, Olsen said.
Olsen said the object, however, was made to look like a bomb and was not hidden.
A criminal investigation will be opened in hopes of finding the person who placed the object in the parking lot.
Police arrest suspect in CdA, other bank robberies
A man accused of robbing bank branches in Idaho and Utah, including a Coeur d’Alene credit union last month, is behind bars after allegedly attempting a repeat heist near Pocatello last weekend.
Randy T. Jordan, 44, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Idaho last week on two counts of bank robbery. Coeur d’Alene police and the FBI released surveillance footage of the alleged robbery that occurred about 1:45 p.m. Oct. 4 at the Global Credit Union branch at 320 E. Neider Ave. Witnesses said a man, who authorities believe is Jordan, displayed a gun and left the bank with $1,244 in cash. In a previous robbery in July, police say Jordan made off with more than $8,000 from an Idaho State University Credit Union location in Chubbuck, north of Pocatello.
Authorities there told the Idaho State Journal that Jordan returned Nov. 1 to that Chubbuck branch, four days after the grand jury indicted him for the previous charges. He was taken into custody at a nearby restaurant without incident, though authorities say a pipe bomb was found in his car.
Jordan also faces bank robbery allegations in Utah, the Idaho State Journal reports.
Post Falls man, 43, jailed on 20 child porn counts
A Post Falls man is in the Kootenai County Jail facing 20 charges of distributing and possessing sexually exploitative material of children.
Lee W. Nelson, 43, was arrested just after 1:30 p.m. Thursday on a $250,000 warrant. The documents in the case have been sealed and no other information was immediately available Friday. The spokesman for the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office did not return calls seeking comment.
Three hunters cited, others warned after 30 elk killed
HELENA – Three hunters were cited and many more received verbal warnings after reports that dozens were firing into a herd of about 500 elk near Canyon Ferry Reservoir on the second day of the general big-game hunting season.
Fish, Wildlife and Parks wardens said 30 elk were killed Oct. 26, an unknown number were injured and a 5x5 bull was seized from one of the shooters.
Robert B. McCaslin and Brett Gene McMurphy, of Great Falls, and Kenneth Garrison, of East Helena, were cited for hunting big game without landowner permission.