Prosecutors: Idaho officer murder-suicide was premeditated April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail BELLEVUE, Idaho (AP) — Prosecutors in Idaho have said a former police officer fatally shot a woman he had been dating before shooting himself last year in what they confirmed to be a murder-suicide. Blaine County Prosecutor Matt Fredback said Monday that former Hailey police officer Jared Murphy, 28, shot and killed Bellevue resident Ashley Midby, 34, in an office adjacent to the coffee house where she worked after he was fired from his job because of a domestic dispute three days earlier, The Idaho Mountain Express reported. The Blaine County prosecuting attorney’s office found that Murphy's actions in October 2020 amounted to “premeditated, intentional murder,” Fredback said. “Murphy’s subsequent suicide prevents any opportunity to bring him to justice for this heinous and cowardly act.”