Roadside murder results in 15-year prison sentence

Ashley Myers, 31, the suspect in the Sept. 28 fatal shooting of a man at the intersection of the Colfax Airport Road and Highway 26, was sentenced to 180 months in prison after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder Friday morning in superior court. Myers was charged with fatally shooting Kenneth Allen, 55, Coeur d’Alene, twice in the head with a .40 caliber pistol after the Chevrolet Tahoe in which they were riding was stopped off the Airport Road.

Noting he believed Myers should spend more time in prison “to think about the what she had done,” Court Commissioner Howard N...