Deputies Seek Driver Who Threw Explosive

Tue., Feb. 11, 1997

Associated Press

Authorities spent Monday looking for the driver of a blue compact car believed to have thrown an explosive device which killed a local man.

Idaho County Sheriff R.E. Meinen said suspects in the death of Stacey V. Calhoun, 28, have been interviewed, but no one has been taken into custody.

The driver threw a device into the bed of Calhoun’s pickup, parked near the Gun Club Road north of Grangeville on Saturday evening.

Calhoun and a female companion saw a small red glow they thought was a cigarette butt. Calhoun tried to extinguish it by throwing snow onto it when it exploded. Debris was scattered all over the road.

“At this time, we don’t know a motive for this,” Meinen said. “It looks somewhat random.”

Calhoun was taken to Syringa General Hospital in Grangeville, then to St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston, where he died at 8:55 a.m., Sunday.

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