Man shot and killed by police in Boise s West End early Saturday morning Ian Max Stevenson, The Idaho Statesman
Jul. 24 A man is dead after he was shot by police in Boise s West End neighborhood early Saturday, according to the Boise Police Department.
At about 1:20 a.m., two Boise police officers responded to a property check call on N. 21st Street near West Pleasanton Avenue after receiving a report that a person had been trespassing and squatting there for a couple of nights in an enclosed area, according to a police news release.
The officers looked for the man in an alley, the release said, and announced themselves as police when they found him and approached him.
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The 25-year-old is charged with assaulting police, fleeing from police, grand theft and other felonies.
Credit: Paul Boehlke/KTVB Author: KTVB Staff Updated: 5:57 PM MDT July 13, 2021
Ezra Smith, 25, faces felony charges of assault or battery on certain personnel, fleeing from police, grand theft and malicious injury to property.
On Sunday night, police say he led officers on a high-speed chase before he repeatedly rammed a police car.
The incident was first reported to police at about 7 p.m. Sunday when a caller reported a reckless or possibly drunk driver in a moving van on Overland Road near Cole Road in Boise. When officers tried to pull over the driver, he swerved into the police cars and fled.