Missoula police investigating wheelchair theft
MISSOULA — Police in Missoula are investigating a report of a wheelchair theft in a downtown alley.
Spokesman Travis Welsh said that a homeless man reported being assaulted and robbed at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday.
The man says a Caucasian man and Hispanic man attacked while he slept in an alley.
He says that he lost consciousness during the attack and when he awoke his wheelchair was gone.
He says he wouldn’t be able to identify the men if he saw them again.
MISSOULA — Police in Missoula are investigating a report of a wheelchair theft in a downtown alley.
Spokesman Travis Welsh said that a homeless man reported being assaulted and robbed at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday.
The man says a Caucasian man and Hispanic man attacked while he slept in an alley.
He says that he lost consciousness during the attack and when he awoke his wheelchair was gone.
He says he wouldn’t be able to identify the men if he saw them again.
Billings man charged with homicide freed
BILLINGS — A Billings man charged with fatally shooting his wife’s friend while she was on the phone with a dispatcher reporting a domestic disturbance has been released from jail on $450,000 bond.
Authorities released 28-year-old Richard Douglas Reinert on Friday from the Yellowstone County Detention Facility.
Reinert pleaded not guilty Jan. 6 to deliberate homicide in the Dec. 21 shooting death of 25-year-old Jessica Stephenson of Joliet.
Conditions for Reinert’s release include that he be monitored by GPS and doesn’t leave the state without written permission. He also has a 10 p.m. curfew and can’t contact witnesses.
Reinert’s trial is scheduled to start Aug. 4.
Judge Mary Jane McCalla Knisely in April reduced Reinert’s bond from $750,000 to $450,000, which the family paid in cash.
Stephenson called 911 late on Dec. 21 and said she’d helped Reinert’s wife bring him home from a bar and that he’d pointed a gun at himself, court records said. Gunshots could be heard during the call and the dispatcher could no longer speak with Stephenson.
The dispatcher then heard a woman in the background yelling: “You shot her. What are you doing?” and a man yelling “you made me do this,” court records said.
Responding officers found Reinert straddling his wife, who was screaming for help. Stephenson’s body was found in a bedroom. She died of multiple gunshot wounds to the head and torso, authorities said.