Hutto admitted being present at killing

David E. Hutto admitted to investigators he was present when William “Bo” Kirk was killed on Oct. 22, according to court testimony unsealed by a judge Monday in Coeur d’Alene.

After his arrest Oct. 28 on a murder charge, the 44-year-old Hutto told a Kootenai County Sheriff’s detective and an FBI agent that an acquaintance of his known by the nickname Cowboy was not involved in the death of Kirk.

“In response I asked Mr. Hutto how he knew this information, and he replied, ‘Because I was there,’” Detective Sgt. Ken Lallatin, the lead investigator in the case, told a judge on Oct. 30.

Lallatin said he also interviewed Justin Roy Booth, who lived and worked with Hutto at a Hayden home and also was arrested Oct. 28, on a federal charge of being a felon in possession of a gun.

Booth, 36, provided information on his and Hutto’s involvement in Kirk’s death, Lallatin said.

Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney Barry McHugh asked a judge to seal the testimony detailing reasonable grounds for holding Hutto for murder out of concern for Booth’s family/Scott Maben, SR. More here.