https://flatheadbeacon.com/2021/09/16/man-dies-in-kalispell-shooting/


A 28-year-old Kalispell man is dead after shots were fired in the parking lot of Fuel Fitness at 1305 U.S. Highway 2 in Kalispell on Thursday morning, according to press a release from the Kalispell Police Department.

Officers responded to a call of shots fired at 10:52 a.m. on Sept. 16 where they found three people with gunshot wounds, including one man who died. The other two men were transported to Logan Health, and authorities say all involved parties are accounted for.

At the scene, officers discovered a male had been asked to leave the parking lot by employees of the business, resulting in an argument. The male opened fire on one of the employees, killing him. A bystander reportedly grabbed a gun from his vehicle and fired shots at the suspect, disabling him and receiving a gunshot wound in the exchange, according to the Kalispell Police Department.

The suspect male is reportedly in critical condition and remains under law enforcement supervision. The bystander is reportedly in stable condition, according to authorities.

According to Fuel Fitness and Nutrition assistant manager Matt Underhill, he and the manager confronted a man in the gym’s parking lot who had been living at the gym for several weeks. They refunded the man’s unused gym membership and told him he needed to leave. The man demanded more money from the gym, and when told they could not offer him more, he responded that they were going to die and pulled out a gun.

Underhill said he immediately ran back to the gym and heard several gunshots around him. He said the manager fell to the pavement after the first gunshot.

Another gym member who saw the initial exchange ran to his own vehicle in the parking lot, according to Underhill, grabbed a firearm and returned fire, while sustaining a gunshot wound of his own.

Finally,  the suspect is named and charged.

https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2021/sep/28/transient-man-charged-murder-gym-shooting/

A Kalispell man has been charged with murder in alleged shooting death of the manager of Fuel Fitness in Kalispell nearly two weeks ago.

According to court documents, Jonathan Douglas Shaw, 36, is facing one charge of deliberate homicide and one charge of attempted deliberate homicide.

Charging documents indicate when officers from the Kalispell Police Department arrived at Fuel Fitness on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 16, they found Matthew Hurley in a red shirt lying in the parking lot. An officer also saw another man lying face down on the ground. He was identified as Shaw and as he got to his knees, the officer could see a handgun on the ground in front of the accused man.

Another officer determined Hurley had been struck by multiple rounds. He was declared dead at the scene.