Dispute Led To Shooting, Suspect’s Wife Says Two Arrested In Idaho Face First-Degree Murder Charges In Spokane County

A woman whose husband is charged with killing a Spokane Valley man said Monday a property dispute led to Jeremy Moore’s shooting death.

Edward “Alan” Burrow and Moore had known each other for about a year and became good friends last summer, said Burrow’s wife, Laura Burrow. The two had been roommates as recently as early December, she said.

With his wife and 3-year-old daughter watching Monday on a television screen in the jail lobby, Burrow, 22, told a Kootenai County magistrate he plans to waive an extradition hearing. If he does, Burrow will be returned to Spokane to answer a first-degree murder charge in the shotgun slaying of Moore on Dec. 23.

“He doesn’t deny being involved, he denies shooting,” Laura Burrow said.

Burrow and Christopher C. Gober, 19, were arrested early Friday at a Coeur d’Alene duplex. Gober also has been charged in Spokane with first-degree murder in Moore’s death.

Gober signed an extradition waiver Monday and will be returned to Spokane. The Post Falls man also was wanted in Kootenai County on a $500,000 bench warrant after he failed to appear to be sentenced for his part in an unrelated drive-by shooting.

Five other people at the Coeur d’Alene duplex when sheriff’s deputies raided it last Friday have been charged with harboring a fugitive.

Laura Burrow, who is separated from her husband, said she visited him in the Kootenai County jail over the weekend. She said Edward Burrow told her the two men argued over unspecified property in the moments before Moore’s death.

She said she did not know what triggered the shooting.

“He just said he didn’t mean for this to happen,” Laura Burrow said.

Moore, 20, died instantly when he was shot in the head at close range following the argument. Spokane County investigators apparently do not believe Burrow fired the shotgun.

A witness told detectives it was Gober who pulled the trigger, according to court records in Spokane.

“I’m going to stick by him no matter what happens because we have a daughter to raise,” Laura Burrow said.

Her daughter slept on a bench in the jail lobby until it was her father’s turn to speak to the judge. The blond-haired girl waved when her father appeared on the television screen.

“I don’t really know how to explain it,” Laura Burrow said. “I just tell her Daddy’s in trouble.”

, DataTimes