COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- The woman shot and killed by an Idaho State Police trooper after an altercation near Hayden, Idaho, was identified Tuesday as Christie A. Little, 40, of Butte, Mont.
The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office said she was killed and a fugitive from Montana was slightly injured when the trooper opened fire on a vehicle that collided with the patrol car Monday evening near Hayden.
The man who was driving the vehicle was identified as 24-year-old Mark M. Maykopet of Butte. He was treated and released from the hospital and booked into the Kootenai County Jail on charges of eluding a peace officer, aggravated assault on a peace officer and being a fugitive. The trooper has been placed on paid administrative leave.
Maykopet, alias Mark Marion Macy, walked away from a prerelease center in Helena, Mont., in October, according to a press release from the center.
He was there finishing a three-year sentence for a 2007 felony theft conviction in Flathead County and 10-year suspended sentences for felony convictions in 2008 for drugs and issuing bad checks, according to the Montana Department of Corrections.
