Convicted Calif. sex offender shot, killed by alleged victim
Date: Sep 18, 2005 7:17 PM
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Convicted Calif. sex offender shot, killed by alleged victim

Friday, September 16, 2005

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A northern Idaho man who was shot and killed by a woman he
was attacking was a registered sex offender convicted in
California, Bonner County Sheriff’s Capt. John Valdez says.

A 34-year-old Clark Fork woman shot Christopher Michael
Schmidt, 42, Tuesday night during a struggle after she gave
him a ride home, Valdez said.

“He grabbed her and physically attacked her and told her she
was coming with him,” Valdez told the Spokesman-Review
newspaper of Spokane, Wash. “There was a struggle and she
couldn’t overcome him. All the physical evidence matches
what she says, all down the line.”

The woman’s name has not been released. Bonner County
Prosecutor Phil Robinson said he was still reviewing police
reports on the shooting but did not anticipate filing
charges against her. Idaho law says people cannot be tried
for murder when defending themselves against aggravated
assault, rape, murder, robbery or “other heinous crimes.”

“She’s made comments, as I understand, that she was in fear
for her life,” Robinson said.

Schmidt was listing on Idaho’s sex offender registry for a
1989 conviction in Sonoma County, Calif., of assault to
commit rape and sodomy.

Investigators said Schmidt had known the woman when the two
worked at a Montana machine shop. He briefly stopped at her
home at about 5 p.m. Tuesday to ask her about job
prospects. Later in the evening, she and her roommate heard
a noise outside their house and found Schmidt hiding in the
bushes. He told her his pickup truck had broken down and he
needed a ride home.

Valdez said the woman reluctantly agreed to give Schmidt a
lift, but took a .380-caliber handgun with her. When he
began attacking her in the driveway of his home, the woman
shot him in the abdomen and ran to a neighbor’s house to
call for help.

Schmidt died at the scene. An autopsy showed he had a
blood-alcohol content of .26 percent, more than three times
Idaho’s legal limit for driving.

Valdez said the woman had scrapes and scratches on her neck
and collarbone. Investigators said Schmidt’s pickup truck
was found at near the woman’s home and it appeared the
engine was intentionally disabled.