Suicide victim discovered outside courthouse
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News from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office
At about 4 p.m. on Sept. 26 Lake County Dispatch received a radio call from the captain of the jail that there was a male with a gun at the west side parking lot of the courthouse on First Street in a car. Deputies who responded from inside the court approached and found Chester Johnson, a 95-year-old Missoula man, deceased. After an investigation, it was determined that Johnson died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.