Stories from Wednesday, October 9, 2002

A young woman shot in the head at a Taco Bell in Boise last Friday, and her boyfriend who was present at the time, are both former residents of Mountain Home. The 20-year-old woman, who was currently living in Caldwell, died Tuesday of her wounds. She was identified as Penny Moore. The Mountain Home News has learned the name of her boyfriend, but is withholding it at present at the request of the Boise Police Department, due to the ongoing investigation in the case...

Lori Lewis Rivera, 25, had moved from Mountain Home to Maryland to pursue her dream of working with children. She returned home yesterday and will be buried today, Wednesday, in what the family hopes will be a private ceremony, after she was shot and killed by a sniper that has terrorized the Washington, D.C., area and riveted the nation's attention on the ongoing acts of senseless deaths that have shaken that area...