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Few details emerging in officer-involved shooting

Keith Cousins | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 1 month AGO
by Keith Cousins
| June 8, 2014 9:00 PM

COEUR d'ALENE - On Friday night, the only audible sound in the 400 block of Dragonfly Drive came from the idling engines of multiple law enforcement agency vehicles.

A 10-home radius was blocked with police tape and large, plastic, "Road Closed" signs in the neighborhood while a critical incident task force investigated an officer-involved shooting. The shooting occurred at 9 p.m., shortly after Coeur d'Alene Police Department officers responded to a domestic disturbance call, an Idaho State Police spokesperson said Saturday in a press release.

Prior to officers' arrival at the scene, one of the men involved in the dispute left the residence, the release stated, reportedly with a gun. Officers located the man on the second-story deck in the back yard of the home next door.

"Shots were fired, and the individual was fatally wounded," the release stated. "One of the occupants of the residence in which the subject was located had seen a man with a gun on the deck and secured himself and the other occupants in a back room. No one else was physically injured."

A neighbor told the Press that she was shocked when she came home from getting milk to see the scene in what she described as a "quiet" neighborhood filled with young families.

Investigators went from home to home, some of which were decorated with congratulatory signs for the Coeur d'Alene High School seniors who graduated that evening, and asked residents questions. A man at the home where the individual was shot on the deck paced back and forth on the porch, one hand over his mouth, the other gripping a cell phone.

Officers involved in the incident will be placed on leave for an undetermined amount of time while the Idaho State Police Major Crimes Unit-led investigation takes place.

The names of the officers involved and the name of the man killed during the incident have not yet been released.

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