SPIRIT LAKE, Idaho – It’s been 69 days since S.A. Floyd, Spirit Lake, ID resident, died in her home.
The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) investigated the shooting a released this statement:
“The investigation by the Sheriff’s Office revealed that on November 1, 2023 at approximately 6:14 PM, two officers from the Spirit Lake Police Department were dispatched to 6155 W. Jefferson Street #8 to check on the welfare of a possible suicidal subject. Upon their arrival at the location, the two officers were contacted outside the apartment by the reporting party. The reporting party, who had already forced entry into the apartment, asked the officers to check on the welfare of the resident. The officers entered the residence after announcing their presence and encountered a female in a bedroom where an officer-involved shooting occurred. Immediately following the shooting, the officers withdrew from inside the residence and awaited the response of deputies and additional officers. Ultimately after a search warrant was secured, officers re-entered the residence and found the female resident, S.A. Floyd, deceased. A firearm was recovered near her body.”
That was released Dec. 18 2023. Since then, nothing more has been released from the KCSO. There have been mixed reactions from the community on what unfolded here. Some supporting law enforcement, and some seeking more answers.
“I think it’s odd that the sheriff hasn’t updated,” Inga Nova, a resident at the same senior living community that Floyd died at, said.
Nova said she’s never seen an incident like this take so long.
“No. No. And not be transparent, more transparent at least,” Nova, said, referring to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, who investigated this shooting. Her support for the Spirit Lake Police Department, though, unparallel, according to Nova.
“I personally love my police department,” Nova said.
Spirit Lake Police responded to the residence Nov. 1 for a welfare check, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office.
“Before you know it, the SWAT was here,” Nova recalled.
S.A. Floyd would later die, following what neighbors recall, several gunshots.
“It was surreal.”
Surreal, to say the least, and now, weeks later, still not many questions have been answered.
NonStop Local spoke with Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney, Stanley Mortensen, who now has control over the investigation. Mortensen said that he still hasn’t received the autopsy.
“The autopsy still hasn’t been released. Why? What’s up with this? It is very strange,” Nova said.
NonStop Local emailed the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, who has finished its investigation, and asked if they had received the autopsy report, but PIO Zachary Sifford, said he had to check.
Meanwhile, in Spirit Lake, it’s tightlipped. Both the police department and Mayor Jeremy Cowperthwaite say they can’t release anything, under direction of the prosecutor.
As of Tuesday, there is still no timeline as to when any additional information will be released, although, the City of Spirit Lake says it will talk with news outlets when the prosecutor gives the go-ahead.
