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Roadside suicide is investigated

| March 18, 2017 1:00 AM

HOPE — A man was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound alongside Highway 200 on Tuesday.

The death was being investigated as a suicide, Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler said on Wednesday.

Deputies and Bonner County EMS personnel were summoned to the 49,000 block of Highway 200 after dispatchers received a report of an unattended death at about 1:40 p.m. The suicide occurred near the shore of Lake Pend Oreille near Riser Creek.

The Bonner County Daily Bee does not generally report on suicides unless it involves a public figure or if the act is committed in a public setting.

The shooting was portrayed as a homicidal act on social media, although Wheeler said that has been ruled out.