Two Adams County sheriff’s deputies who shot and killed a rancher last fall will not be back with the force, two leaders of a group seeking justice for the rancher’s family said Wednesday. State and federal prosecutors decided last month not to prosecute the
deputies, Brian Wood and Cody Roland, saying there was not enough
evidence to support state homicide charges or federal civil rights
charges. The deputies say they shot Jack Yantis after
he pointed a rifle at them and refused their commands to point it
downward. Yantis had been summoned to the highway to euthanize one of
his bulls, which had been hit by a car. Becca Barrow and Mike
McLaughlin, co-founders of a group called Justice for Jack and friends
of the Yantis family, said they had learned from multiple sources that
Wood and Roland would not return to work. Sheriff Ryan Zollman first
would not confirm that on Wednesday, but later did confirm that Roland,
in fact, resigned at the end of November. A lawyer for the
county, Boise attorney Jim Davis, said a statement would be forthcoming.
As of Wednesday evening, no statement had been issued...more
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