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Hi everyone. I live here in Moscow, ID. In fact Paul was a friend of ours and had been our neighbor for some time. It is partially for his sake that I am writing this.

This is what we know from monitoring the scanner through the night and what we have fought to find out.

Last night as 3 dispatchers were working in the sheriff’s office, a part of the court house, a 20 year old white male who had applied for the sheriffs department and was not getting a call back, opened fire on the exterior of the building.
He was using an SKS high power long range rifle with armor piercing bullets. After several rounds were fired an officer had left the building and was fired upon. Another officer had come around the side of the building and was fired upon as well.
One downed officer was removed from the premise by another while under fire. The other officer was rescued when a police car drove in under fire and got him from the road.
The assailant busted through the front doors of the church across the street from the courthouse. There he came into contact with Paul and Paul was shot dead.
The killer then entered into the back of the church area were he proceeded to shoot off several rounds at the courthouse and people. sometime after midnight a muffled gunshot was heard from inside the building at 6ish this morning State S.W.A.T. entered the Presbyterian Church to find Paul shot in the office and the body of the shooter in the back of the church.

Paul was an awesome man. He was a native of the New York area, raised in an Italian district, he always had interesting stories to tell. He was a veteran. He was a father. He lost his family do to his use of alcohol. In the time I knew him I learned alot about his regrets. He had cleaned up from alcohol and was just beginning to repair his relationship with his family. He was homeless for a little bit before he moved in and became caretaker to the church. The saddest part for me is while we were seeking information about the person shot in the church we found out his daughter was here visiting him. This would have been a very special moment for him as he had only just begun to talk to them again.
He was a very good hearted outgoing man, whom had made many friends in the community with his kindness.

So now you know what we know... Sorry I don’t write as well as a reporter I am not one but I was caught off by the speculating and racial profiling comments. Although I understand that we fight against an external threat of terrorism it would do us good to not overlook the problem children we have here in our own homeland.

This was not some foreigner with a grudge against the U.S. or whack job just out of the pen and pissed at those who put him in. It was a 20 year old boy with an SKS, armor piercing bullets and an ‘I’m going to prove myself’ attitude who was using innocent dispatchers as bait to lure sheriffs into a deadly situation.

I hope your wife knows that me and many like me are VERY thankful for the work your wife does and are exceedingly grateful for the risks taken by our public workers to uphold a peaceful society.
This only reinforces the importance of her job.

That’s all for me.