The man accused of killing a Coeur d’Alene resident Wednesday was found dead in a car on Bruss Road near Highway 53 Thursday afternoon.

Police had been searching for 61-year-old Steven T. Denson after his former fiance, 37-year-old Kelly A. Pease, was found shot dead in her car in a parking lot outside Kootenai Health Wednesday afternoon.

Someone spotted Denson’s vehicle Thursday and deputies located it parked on Bruss Road shortly after 4 p.m. Denson was found dead inside of an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound, said Det. Dennis Stinebaugh of the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office.

Pease, a Bonners Ferry native and nursing student at North Idaho College, died of a gunshot wound to her head. A hospital employee found Pease in her car in the north parking lot on the hospital campus and attempted CPR.

Denson was also accused of violently assaulting Pease earlier this year/Nina Culver, SR. More here.

 

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