Update: Shooting suspect in custody

HAUSER — Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office detectives are seeking the suspect in a shooting incident that left one man injured.

On Sunday around 9:30 p.m., sheriff’s deputies were called to a residence in the 11700 block of North Hauser Lake Road for a reported shooting.

The caller reported that the victim had been shot and the shooter fled the area in a vehicle. Once on scene, deputies found a male lying on the ground outside the residence with a gunshot wound.

Medical personnel arrived shortly after and transported the male to Kootenai Health. According to witnesses, the victim, identified as Jeremy D. Stutheit, 40, Rathdrum, was involved in an altercation at the Dinki D’s bar in Hauser with another male, identified as Michael E. Couture, 49, Post Falls.

Once the fight was broken up, the two left the bar separately and Stutheit was shot a short time later outside a residence in the vicinity of the bar. Currently, Couture is a person of interest in this case and is being sought for questioning. Couture may be driving a gold 2000 Nissan Altima, four-door sedan with Idaho license plate K566572.

Stutheit is listed in stable condition at Kootenai Health. Further information will be released when it becomes available.