North Central Idaho Murder Victims Identified

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Authorities have identified the two north central Idaho victims allegedly killed by two men wanted for a shooting at a hospital in Boise last week.

According to the Lewiston Tribune, coroners on Friday identified the victim in Nez Perce County as 83-year-old James Mauney, of Juliaetta, who was reported missing on Wednesday when he left home in his Chrysler Pacifica minivan to take his two dogs to a walking path.

The victim in Clearwater County was 72-year-old Gerald Henderson who was found dead outside his remote cabin near Orofino.

An escaped prisoner, Skylar Meade, and the accomplice, a recently released inmate named Nicholas Umphenour — both allegedly members of the Aryan Knights gang — were arrested in Twin Falls on Thursday afternoon. Authorities say their arrests came 36 hours after Umphenour allegedly shot and wounded two Idaho corrections officers while they were preparing to return Meade to prison from a Boise hospital.

Mead and Umphenour made initial court appearances Friday, along with a woman, identified as Tonia Huber who drove one of the two vehicles they were traveling in when they were arrested.

Meade and Umphenour were being held on $2 million bond.

Huber, who was charged with harboring a fugitive, eluding police and drug possession, is being held on $500,000 bond.

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