A Lewiston man who shot and killed a fugitive near Soldiers Meadow in August of 2020 has been sentenced to up to one year in the Nez Perce County jail and seven years probation.
2nd District Judge Jeff Brudie sentenced 57-year-old Darren McCann to a suspended term of 3-7 years behind bars Wednesday as part of a binding plea agreement.
McCann was initially charged with second-degree murder for the Aug. 4th, 2020, shooting death of 49-year-old Jerry Glass Jr. of Spokane, after he caught Glass burglarizing his Soldiers Meadow cabin.
According to court records, McCann allegedly shot Glass after he had gone to check on his and his neighbors’ cabins after hearing reports that Glass had been burglarizing cabins in the area. Glass had raced away from a Whitman County traffic stop two days earlier in a stolen vehicle, which he crashed in the Zaza Grade area near the cabins.
McCann found Glass on the lower floor of his cabin during his check and placed him under citizen’s arrest. He marched Glass at gunpoint down Soldiers Meadow Road to find a cellphone signal so he could call police. McCann told sheriff’s deputies that he and Glass had gone about two-tenths of a mile on the road when Glass shoved him and ran into the woods.
McCann then fired once into the ground and then shot again, hitting Glass in the back.
Deputies later found Glass deceased in some bushes nearby. (Lewiston Tribune)
