An officer-involved shooting that left a longtime Adams County rancher dead Sunday has shocked the community and brought a tidal wave of recriminations for the county’s small sheriff’s department.
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office has been bombarded with angry calls and hate mail from people upset by the shooting, which left 62-year-old Jack Yantis dead on U.S. 95 in front of his home north of Council.
Adams County Sheriff Ryan Zollman said people in the office are being called “murderers” and said the calls coming in forced one emergency dispatcher to leave her post Tuesday. “She was so upset,” he said.
Yantis was one of two ranchers summoned Sunday night to a highway car crash that injured a bull; deputies were unsure whose animal it was, Zollman said. The bull was reportedly charging at first responders working to extricate two people from the Subaru station wagon that hit him. As deputies prepared to kill the bull, Yantis showed up — with a rifle. What transpired to cause Yantis and the two deputies to all fire their weapons is under investigation by Idaho State Police. On Tuesday, ISP said that anyone who was in the area around the time of the shooting should contact them at 208-884-7110. “It’s a supreme tragedy,” Council Schools Superintendent Murray
Dalgleish said. “It’s a tragedy for the town. It’s a tragedy for the
families. It’s inexplicable, and you’re trying to find some rationality.
This is difficult, very difficult. Yantis was also an expert logger, according to friend Buck Rekow. “Jack
was probably about the best faller in this part of the country. The
Forest Service still came to him to deal with problem trees,” said
Rekow, a 36-year-old Emmett man who got to know Yantis while working for
his son-in-law about a decade ago. Rekow said he admired the way Yantis lived. “He
made his living from the ground and the woods,” Rekow said. “What he
didn’t raise, he shot. He was an avid outdoorsman. He had a great deal
of skill and knowledge about life on the farm and in the woods. That is
truly an example of what an Idahoan should be.”...
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