Fuel Fitness shooter’s attorneys review jury pool data in quest for new trial

Attorneys for Fuel Fitness shooter Jonathan Douglas Shaw received more time Wednesday to study data on the available jury pool for his July murder trial in an effort to see his convictions on deliberate and attempted deliberate homicide charges reversed. 

A jury found Shaw, 37, guilty of both felony counts on July 13 following a four-day trial in Flathead County District Court. The 12-person panel took a little more than four hours to return with a verdict for Shaw, who testified that he shot a Fuel Fitness manager dead in the gym’s parking lot in 2021 out of fear the employee was about to attack him. 

Shaw was expected to return before Judge Dan Wilson for sentencing on Sept. 21, but his defense attorneys, Colin Stephens and Paul Simon, filed a motion requesting the reversal of his conviction and a new trial earlier that month.