AG to investigate rancher’s shooting

The Adams County prosecutor has asked the Idaho Attorney General’s Office to step in as special prosecutor on an officer-involved shooting that left a Council rancher dead a week ago, Todd Dvorak, spokesman for the AG’s office, told the Statesman Monday. It is common practice for prosecutors to pass cases where they may have a conflict of interest to other counties, or to the attorney general’s office. In this case, the shooting involved the Adams County Sheriff’s Office. Jack Yantis died Nov. 1 on U.S. Highway 95 in front of his ranch, about 6 miles north of Council. Two members of Yantis’ family witnessed the shooting. They told the Statesman he was shot by two deputies for no apparent reason when he was about to shoot a bull he owned that had been hit by a Subaru station wagon / Katy Moeller, Cynthia Sewell /Idaho Statesman. More here.