April 22, 2021
A Winchester man accused of shooting and killing his former son-in-law at a Lewiston supermarket parking lot will stand trial.
67-year-old James Brashear was ordered by a judge Wednesday to stand trial on a single charge of first-degree murder.
James Brashear
Brashear allegedly shot 40-year-old John Mast multiple times around 6 p.m. Feb. 5th in front of the Rosauers store on Thain Road.
According to court documents and the testimony of Lewiston Police, Brashear said he killed Mast to prevent an unsupervised visit between Mast and the two children Mast had with his daughter, Rebecca Brashear-Mast.
An arraignment is scheduled for next Wednesday.
ABOVE: Officers from the Lewiston Police Department investigate the scene of a homicide in the early hours of Jan. 8 at a home on the 1700 block of Seventh Avenue. LEFT: Law enforcement officers from the Lewiston Police Department and the Nez Perce Sheriffâs Office investigate the scene of a shooting Feb. 5 in the Rosauers parking lot in the Lewiston Orchards. Violent crime has been on the rise over the past year.
Pete Caster/Tribune
Custody battle drew Williston dad to Idaho, where he was fatally shot before seeing kids
James Robert Brashear, 67, of Winchester, Idaho, is accused of fatally shooting his son-in-law, 40-year-old John Allen Mast, in Lewiston, Idaho. The crime is a capital offense. 6:05 pm, Feb. 16, 2021 ×
John Mast
LEWISTON, Idaho A North Dakota man was shot and killed by his father-in-law in Idaho on Feb. 5, the same day he was to meet his two children after a roughly three-year custody battle that began in Williston, N.D., police alleged in court documents.
James Robert Brashear of Winchester, Idaho, was arraigned Feb. 8 in Nez Perce County Magistrate Court on a first-degree murder charge, a capital offense in Idaho. Court documents alleged the 67-year-old fatally shot his son-in-law, 40-year-old John Allen Mast, in Lewiston.
Last week, images of the future Moscow-Pullman airport were twice on display for public review and comments. They showed plans, perspectives, or what the firm behind them calls âexterior character,â and other information related to airport data. That was very nice and well appreciated. Less … More Headlines
February 9, 2021
A 40-year-old North Dakota man was allegedly gunned down by his former father-in-law in the parking lot of the Lewiston Rosauers grocery store Friday night. The victim was reportedly was expecting to pick up his children. John A. Mast died a short time later at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center from multiple gunshot wounds. On Monday, Nez Perce County Magistrate Judge Michelle Evans ordered a $1 million bond on a first-degree murder charge for James R. Brashear, 67, of Winchester, who allegedly confessed to Lewiston police that he went to the scene for the express purpose of killing Mast Deputy Nez Perce County Prosecutor Shelby Sieracki said the state requested the high bond because the shooting took place in a public parking lot at the busiest time of day, and that Brashear poses a threat to the community and himself. According to an affidavit of probable cause charging Brashear with first-degree murder, he told police that his daughter, Rebecca Brashear-Mast