Toddler, man injured in accidental shooting
An accidental shooting involving a 2-year-old and a 37-year-old man outside a Columbia Falls residence on Saturday resulted in the pair being transported to the hospital with non-life threating injuries, according to Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry. Details of how the accidental shooting happened is being investigated Curry said.
A pair of rapscallions were causing a scene at a store on U.S. 2 E. in Kalispell by allegedly running through the store cursing, flipping people off and refusing to leave. When employees reportedly took the kids outside they kept running back inside.
Someone on East Lakeshore Drive in Whitefish was suspicious of a man that allegedly kept moving a vehicle to a different spot each day and wasn’t sure if the man was casing the area or a transient. The man reportedly told Flathead County Sheriff’s Office he had been camping on state land, was waiting for car parts and would move out of the area.
Someone on Willow Glen Drive in Kalispell said a man in a white truck reportedly stopped, pulled two dogs out of the vehicle onto the road, yelled at them and then drove off without them.
People on U.S. 2 East in Kalispell lodged a second complaint about alleged drug users living in a camper in front of their residence over two weeks. A man was moved along.
Someone on Stageline Drive in Whitefish found two horses in front of their yard and wasn’t sure where they belonged.
Two purportedly foul-smelling goats apparently showed up at someone’s residence on Wettington East Drive in Kalispell. The person said the goats didn’t look healthy.
A passerby spotted two pigs on the loose near a highway.
What someone thought was a pony walking down a driveway on Columbia Falls Stage Road in Columbia Falls was actually a paint horse standing in a ditch.
A man pulled over in a vehicle on U.S. 35 in Bigfork was allegedly seen beating up a girl. The woman then reportedly drove away with the man walking on the highway.
A woman on Edgewood Drive in Kalispell was concerned about a man who reportedly was walking up and down the street stopping at houses and staring.
A passerby on U.S. 2 East in Kalispell reported a log in the highway, which someone ran over puncturing a tire. The log was removed.
A man allegedly choked someone on Mountain View Drive in Kalispell.
A Columbia Falls man told officers that he reportedly saw two men, one with a gun, in front of a residence and when he went to check it out the men allegedly said “let’s kill him,” and ran toward him, so he reportedly got into a vehicle and headed to the police.
Whitefish Police Department received a call from a man who said he was trying to get his boat off the water, but a gate was locked.
A woman walked into a bar and was reportedly punched in the face, according to a report made to Kalispell Police Department.
A nursing mother was unhappy after a store manager supposedly would not stop staring at her chest while she was nursing her child inside her vehicle.
Someone found it curious when two men allegedly dressed in black with shirts over their heads ran down a road and jumped into a sedan.
Someone found it suspicious that a man was reportedly sharpening what looked like an arrow on a bench at Woodland Park. Everything turned out to be OK.
Someone was concerned after seeing a teen walking back and forth through a neighborhood, allegedly looking in houses and vehicles.
Report of a teen who allegedly had a rifle in his hand and was kicking at an apartment door. A woman outside yelled at him to go back inside. It turns out the teen, who may have either had a BB gun or shotgun, was investigating a noise and everything was OK.
A woman decided not to drop off items when she saw two men allegedly taking items from a donation bin.
A store employee told police that a wallet that had been turned in supposedly had “a ton of drugs” found inside in the form of crystals.
Bad Rock Fire Department responded to a motor vehicle fire on Rogers Road.