Police killings
2013-2020

Jack Yantis

Male, White

Date of the incident: 11/1/2015

Council, Adams, ID
US-95

Deputies responded to the scene of an accident involving a car and a bull, state police said. Officers were preparing to shoot the bull after the animal charged emergency responders and passing cars when Yantis, the bull's owner, confronted the deputies, according to authorities. Yantis shot at the deputies and the deputies returned fire, police said. Several eyewitnesses said Yantis aimed his rifle at the bull to humanely euthanise it and may have fired a shot accidentially as deputies wrestled with him.