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 MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) - A gunman suspected of killing three people and himself said during a court-ordered mental evaluation that if he committed suicide, he would try to take a large number of people with him, police said Monday.
Three months after that conversation, authorities say, Jason Hamilton shot and killed his wife at their home, then drove downtown with two assault rifles and fired a barrage of bullets into an emergency dispatch center inside a courthouse and a parking lot outside.
A police officer rushing to the scene late Saturday was killed, and two officers and a civilian who tried to help were wounded. Investigators said Hamilton, 36, also killed sexton Paul Bauer, 62, in an office of the nearby the nearby First Presbyterian Church early Sunday as 911 dispatchers on the phone with Bauer heard the shots.
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