[Vision2020] Juvenile Shooting Suspect Back in Custody

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of the Lewiston Tribune.

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Juvenile shooting suspect back in custody after pipe bomb found

HELMER -- One of the two juveniles arrested in connection with the
shooting of up to 20 vehicles on State Highway 8 last week has been taken
back into custody after investigators found a pipe bomb at his residence
during a search Thursday, according to the Latah County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies were executing a search warrant as part of the investigation into
the Jan. 22 shootings, according to a news release this afternoon from Lt.
Brannon Jordan. Officials evacuated the area around the home, and a bomb
squad from Spokane responded and neutralized the device, according to
Jordan.

Austin Blake Medlock and Austin James Rickert, both 14-year-old freshmen
at Deary High School, allegedly used two .22-caliber rifles and a crossbow
to shoot at the vehicles, according to court records. The news release
does not specify which teen was taken back into custody, and a dispatcher
at the sheriff's office said she was told not to release the suspect's
name.

The teen arrested Thursday is now charged with felony unlawful possession
of bombs or destructive devices in addition to the earlier charge of
unlawfully discharging a firearm at a vehicle, according to the news
release.

County Magistrate John Judge released Medlock and Rickert to their parents
after a hearing Monday on the condition that neither leave the sight of
one of their parents, that all guns be removed from their homes, that they
not touch a firearm, that the parents take them to and from school, that
they both wear electronic monitoring devices and that they agree to be
searched at any time by authorities.

No one was injured in the shootings, but one bullet passed through the
passenger compartment of one car, narrowly missing two girls.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
and the Realist adjusts his sails."

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