Suspect arrested after man is shot to death in Idaho Falls – East Idaho News

The next is a information launch from the Idaho Falls Police Division.

IDAHO FALLS — The Idaho Falls Police Division has one man in custody following an obvious murder that occurred late Saturday. This incident seems to be an remoted incident and it doesn’t seem that there’s any menace to most of the people presently.

At roughly 10:30 p.m., the Idaho Falls Bonneville County Emergency Communications Heart obtained a report of gunshots within the 1500 block of Claire View Lane. The caller said that they thought an individual could also be injured.

Idaho Falls Police Officers rapidly responded and located one grownup male sufferer who had sustained a number of gunshot wounds. Officers instantly tried to offer life-saving assist.

Idaho Falls Fireplace EMS responded and assumed medical efforts earlier than transporting the sufferer to the hospital by way of ambulance.

Regardless of efforts by first responders and medical personnel, the sufferer succumbed to his accidents and was pronounced deceased on the hospital.

Shortly after the incident occurred, the suspect contacted Dispatch and indicated his involvement within the capturing. Idaho Falls Police Officers positioned the suspect within the parking zone of Albertsons within the 500 block of East seventeenth Road the place he was taken into custody at gunpoint however with out additional incident.

The suspect has been recognized as Mark Bent, a 41-year-old resident of Pocatello. Bent is predicted to face legal prices in keeping with murder and stays in police custody.

IFPD Investigators have decided that the suspect and the sufferer have been recognized to one another. The sufferer lived within the space the place the capturing occurred.

The identification of the sufferer is just not being launched at current to permit time for added next-of-kin/household notifications. No additional info is offered for launch presently.