SANDPOINT — A Bonner County jury convicted a man of concealing evidence in a shooting which injured a 13-year-old angler who was fly fishing the Priest River.

The jury found Leo Michael Inwood guilty of the felony following a two-day jury trial in 1st District Court that concluded on Dec. 13, court records show.

Inwood, a 43-year-old Priest River-area resident, faces up to five years in prison when he’s sentenced on Feb. 25, 2019.

Inwood and Eric Rampton Wood were accused of opening fire on two teenagers who were fishing the river on Sept. 17, 2017. After an initial round of shooting subsided, the teens, both of whom were 13 at the time, mounted a moped they used to reach the fishing spot, according to court documents. Gunshots struck one of the teens in the leg and the scooter, which caused it to crash.

Wood, 52, was charged with discharging a firearm at an occupied vehicle, unlawful possession of a firearm due to a prior felony conviction and felony malicious injury to property. Wood ultimately pleaded to the weapon possession charge and an amended charge of injuring another by discharging an aimed firearm, a misdemeanor.

Inwood was charged with discharging a firearm at an occupied vehicle, malicious injury to property and evidence concealment for taking a 12-guage shotgun and a .357 revolver from the scene. Judge Justin Julian, however, ruled during a preliminary hearing there was insufficient evidence to support the firearm and felony malicious injury charges. Julian held that there was no evidence that Inwood knew the teens were in the area when the shots were fired or that damage to the scooter rose to a felony level.

Wood testified to during the preliminary hearing that he believed they were targeting a box top or sign in the brush.

Inwood took the stand in his own defense on the second day of the trial. He told jurors he became aware of the teens’ presence when they attempted to ride away on the moped and was unaware one of them received gunshot wound. Bonner County Public Defender Susie Jensen asked Inwood if taking the guns from the scene in his vehicle and then placing them in his workshop was meant to hamper sheriff’s detectives’ investigation.

“No, that was not my intent,” said Inwood.

During her closing arguments to jurors, Jensen maintained that both Inwood and Wood were unaware anybody had been shot or that there was a law enforcement investigation underway. She added that there were hundreds if not thousands of places the firearms could be hidden if that was her client’s intent.

“Putting them in someone’s shop and then bringing police there does not indicate that they were concealed,” Jensen told the jury.

Bonner County Deputy Prosecutor Katie Edburg disputed the defense’s arguments during her closing remarks to the jury.

“There’s no doubt that he took the firearms from the scene. There’s no doubt that he took shell casings from the scene — they were recovered by the detectives — with the intent to prevent them from being discovered,” Edburg argued.

Wood is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 7, 2019.

Keith Kinnaird can be reached by email at kkinnaird@bonnercountydailybee.com and follow him on Twitter @KeithDailyBee.