http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/state/idaho/article92745382.htmlFive minutes.
That is how much time elapsed between the phone call Idaho rancher Jack Yantis received about one of his bulls being struck by a car and the moment Yantis was shot and killed by two Adams County sheriff’s deputies.
It took the Idaho Attorney General’s Office and the U.S. attorney for Idaho nine months to conclude Friday that no criminal charges were warranted against Deputies Brian Wood and Cody Roland.
Both agencies said conflicting stories from witnesses made it impossible to sort out what happened that dark Sunday night, Nov. 1, on U.S. 95 in front of Yantis’ ranch 6 miles north of Council in west-central Idaho.
Wood said Yantis fired first. Roland said he thought the rancher fired first but said he may have shot at Yantis simultaneously. Yantis’ wife, Donna Yantis, and nephew, Rowdy Paradis, said Yantis never fired his gun and had the barrel pointing up during the confrontation with deputies.
While the deputies had body cameras, neither one was activated.
It may be up to others to decide for themselves who to believe. Here is what each of the four eyewitnesses told investigators.
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