Prison is ordered in shooting

SANDPOINT — A Priest River man accused of opening fire on a Bonner County woman’s home last summer was ordered Friday to serve up to five years in prison.

Jack Leroy Darden will have to serve at least a year in prison before he can be considered for parole, according to the terms of the sentence imposed by Senior District Judge Steve Verby. Darden was also given credit for 228 days of pretrial incarceration, court documents indicate.

Darden, 40, allegedly fired on a woman who was standing outside her home from inside his pickup truck in June of last year. The slug from the .410-gauge shotgun missed the woman’s head by “mere inches,” according to a probable cause affidavit.

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