Authorities are holding a 49-year-old Bigfork area man in the Lake County jail on pending felony deliberate homicide and attempted deliberate homicide charges after he allegedly shot three people at a Ferndale home Sunday night, killing one.
The suspect in a Lakeside shooting last month had no connection to the victim and recently arrived in the Flathead Valley with his weapon from Alaska, prosecutors said Thursday.
The victim in last week’s shooting in Lakeside told authorities that Luke Elliot Rutledge began yelling at him shortly before opening fire from about 6 feet away, according to documents newly filed in Flathead County District Court.