Open Range, Open Season
“They’re calling us murderers,” protests Adams County Sheriff Ryan Zollman, referring to local residents and others who have contacted his office to express their outrage over the November 1nd killing of local rancher Jack Yantis by two of his deputies. That appears to be the opinion of Rowdy Paradis, the only witness to the shooting who has spoken about it publicly.
“They took a family man from the dinner table and slaughtered him,” Paradis told the Idaho Statesman newspaper. At the time the fatal shots were fired, Paradis was about ten feet away from the victim. Upon learning of her husband’s death, his wife Donna suffered a heart attack. She was taken to Saint Alphonsus Hospital in Boise.
Yantis was not a criminal suspect at the time of the shooting. Because he was killed by law enforcement officers, however, the shooting –
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