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4 Shot, 3 Dead, In Moscow

Three people were killed and another critically injured this afternoon when a man shot them in three separate incidents in Moscow. Police later arrested John Lee, 29, after a 24-mile police chase that topped 100 mph – at times in dense fog. Victims in the shootings were Moscow businessman David Trail, 76, Arby’s restaurant manager Belinda Niebuhr, 47, and the suspect’s adoptive mother, Terri Grzebielski, 61. Injured was Seattle resident Michael Chin, 39. Moscow police were called at 2:31 p.m. to an office shared by Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance and an apartment rental company at 303 E. Third St., said Moscow Police Chief David Duke. The man who called 911 said he had just been shot/Jonathan Brunt, SR. More here. (Moscow-Pullman Daily News photo by Geoff Crimmins: Emergency medical technicians from the Moscow Volunteer Fire Department aid one of two men shot in an office in Moscow Saturday)



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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