Officer Lee Stewart Newbill, 48, was killed on the night of May 19, 2007, during a planned attack on law enforcement in Moscow, Idaho. Jason Hamilton opened fire from across the street at the Latah County Courthouse’s emergency dispatch center, apparently intending to draw officers into his line of fire. Newbill and Officer Bill Shields crossed a street to respond; Hamilton fired on them and Newbill was struck. He yelled for his partner to take cover as a sheriff’s deputy crawled out to pull him from danger but was wounded in doing so.

Hamilton then fled to First Presbyterian Church, where he shot and killed church caretaker Paul Bauer, and later died by suicide as police closed in. Investigators determined Hamilton had earlier that night shot and killed his wife, Crystal Hamilton, and was the sole perpetrator of the three killings before taking his own life. Newbill was the first Moscow Police Department officer killed in the line of duty. If anyone knew Officer Newbill or has information about that night, please share what can help remember him and the other victims.