Charges mounting for house-shooting suspect
Ralph Bartholdt Staff Writer | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 6 years AGO
A Hayden man who was arrested naked after dark in a neighbor’s yard last month after allegedly threatening his family with a firearm, spraying bullets in their home and shooting holes into cars will face two additional charges.
Justin Adrian Hill, 32, was charged with attempted second-degree murder after his Nov. 14 arrest by a SWAT team for allegedly threatening to shoot his sister in the face, and shoot his mother at their residence on the 3200 block of East Hayden Lake Road. He was also charged with two counts of aggravated assault, as well as two counts of malicious injury to property and exhibition of a deadly weapon.
Two misdemeanor battery charges were added Friday, bringing Hill’s offense tally to five felonies and two misdemeanors, which could add up to life behind bars.
Hill, who was bound over to district court after an evidentiary hearing, will enter a plea to the seven charges in front of Judge Richard Christensen at a Dec. 23 arraignment in Coeur d’Alene’s First District Court.
Hill allegedly used a semi-automatic rifle to riddle a Subaru Forester and a Subaru Impreza with bullets and spray the inside of his family’s home.
Shortly after family members told police that Hill was armed, on drugs and inside in their house making threats, authorities received another call from a neighbor who heard as many as eight gunshots.
Kootenai County sheriff’s deputies entered the house around 11 p.m. and escorted out the two victims before searching the neighborhood.
SWAT members found Hill standing naked in the dark near a fence with his hands raised, and his clothing and belongings scattered around the yard, according to police.
He is being held on $500,000 bail at the Kootenai County jail.
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