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Renfro timeline

Ralph Bartholdt Staff Writer | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 8 years, 2 months AGO
by Ralph Bartholdt Staff Writer
| October 8, 2017 1:00 AM

May 4, 2015

2 p.m. Parolee Jonathan Renfro, 29, who is a suspect in a Coeur d’Alene gas siphoning case, meets three friends at an A Street residence south of the Ironwood shopping center to drop off a lawnmower for Suzy, the property owner who is disabled. One of Renfro’s friends, Jennifer Doane, cuts the grass while Renfro shows off a handful of hollow point bullets with different-colored tips. He also shows them the stolen Glock he keeps stuffed in his belt. He takes apart the firearm laying the pieces in the grass, then puts it back together.

3 - 4 p.m. Renfro brought over some methamphetamine in a baggie and he gives his friends some of the meth to smoke. He draws a large amount of the methamphetamine into a syringe. Doane injects Renfro with the big shot of meth.

4 - 5 p.m. Renfro and his friends shop at Goodwill on 1200 block of north Fourth Street. Renfro sees someone “looking at him wrong,” is agitated and spends the rest of the time sitting in his Ford pickup truck in the parking lot with Doane as the others shop. “I didn’t want him to make a scene in the store,” Doane said.

6 p.m. The group returns to the house and Renfro doles out more meth that he and the women smoke while sitting around a makeshift campfire in the yard.

10 p.m. Renfro asks for gasoline money. Doane has $10 but needs cigarettes. Renfro and Doane drive to the Gas Mart on the 1900 block of Government Way. After buying smokes, Doane gives Renfro her change for gasoline.

11 p.m. Renfro gets a call from his “on again, off again” girlfriend Kayla Best. He wants to pick up Best but Doane doesn’t want to go along, so Renfro drives Doane back to the A Street house. Eventually, behind the wheel of his older model Ford pickup truck with the messed-up driver side window that doesn’t roll all the way up, Renfro makes his way to the Hayden Walmart.

May 5, 2015

12:15 a.m. Renfro’s red and white Ford pickup enters the parking lot of the Hayden Walmart and Renfro is seen via several of the store’s outdoor cameras leaving the pickup. Cameras follow him walking alone through the outdoor garden section, then southwest. He wears dark clothing and walks along the west side of the building toward Prairie Avenue.

1:26 a.m. Coeur d’Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore confronts Renfro — in the Sunshine Meadows neighborhood off Prairie Avenue — on the corner of west Timberlake Loop and west Wilbur Avenue where Renfro gives Moore his driver’s license. Then a short while later as Moore asks Renfro to step toward his car, Renfro shoots Moore with the pistol still in his pocket. He removes the fallen officer’s firearm, his flashlight and magazines and gets behind the wheel of the Coeur d’Alene patrol car and heads west, while he texts his friends from earlier in the eventing about his predicament.

1:43 a.m. Driving Moore’s stolen police car westbound, Renfro passes Post Falls police officer Chris Thompson at 90 mph on Seltice Way, before speeding up to more than 100 mph after the officer pursues the Cd’A squad car. Renfro pulls away from the Post Falls car. Thompson is unable to intercept Renfro.

2 p.m. Moore’s stolen police car is found near the intersection of Beck Road and west Pointe Parkway.

3:30 a.m. Renfro is located by a Kootenai County K9 and the dog’s handler as he hides in the framework of a semi truck trailer in a field west of the Post Falls Walmart Superstore near Cabela’s.

7 - 9 a.m. Renfro is interviewed by KCSO and ISP detectives at the Kootenai County jail.

8 - 10 a.m. Police find the 9mm Glock handgun Renfro allegedly used to shoot Moore in a field between I-90 and west Pointe Parkway near Beck Road along with the suspect’s glasses, a lighter and Moore’s flashlight.

The above information stems from court records and testimony submitted in the Jonathan D. Renfro jury trial. Times are based on video timestamps or witness recollection.

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