(ProsperNews.net) – A sheriff’s deputy was fatally shot during a traffic stop in Idaho. Tobin Bolter pulled over a Chevy Suburban in Boise on the evening of April 20 and sustained a gunshot as he approached the vehicle. The driver fled the scene. When officers subsequently located him, they exchanged gunfire, and the suspect was killed.
While on his way to assist Mr. Bolter, a second deputy was involved in a car crash. Paramedics took him to a hospital in a stable condition.
At a press conference, Ada County Sheriff Matt Clifford thanked first responders and noted that Bolter is the first sheriff’s deputy ever to die in the line of duty in the county. The 27-year-old had served six years in law enforcement, initially with the Meridian and Pleasant Hill Police Departments in California, before moving to the Gem State in January.
On social media, Idaho Governor Brad Little announced that flags were lowered to half-mast during Bolter’s funeral and memorial service. He said Idaho’s heart was broken “for the loved ones and law enforcement colleagues of Deputy Tobin Bolter.”
While Mr. Bolter was the first Ada County law enforcement officer to die in the line of duty, he joined several other fallen colleagues from across the Gem State. The last officer to die by gunfire in Idaho was Sergeant Gregory King Moore of the Coeur d’Alene Police Department in 2015. Officer Moore was fatally shot after stopping a suspicious vehicle during car theft investigations. He died in hospital the same day.
Since 1863, Idaho has recorded 72 law enforcement deaths. Forty of these were from gunfire, and the first was Deputy Sheriff D. H. Dillingham from Bannock County, who died in a revenge plot. He had discovered that one of his colleagues was involved in a conspiracy to rob miners, and he warned the intended victims. When the conspirators learned of this, they shot and killed Mr. Dillingham on June 29, 1863.
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