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Police Probe Motive In Idaho Shooting Spree That Killed 3

Investigators say a laptop computer from the vehicle of a man suspected in a deadly shooting spree in western Idaho could yield clues to a motive for the violence.

Moscow Police Chief David Duke said investigators searched the car of 29-year-old John Lee, recovering two semi-automatic pistols, a revolver, a shotgun and a rifle, along with the laptop.

Lee was arrested following a high-speed chase in nearby Washington state in the hours after the shootings Saturday afternoon.

Police allege he opened fire at three locations in Moscow, Idaho, killing his adoptive mother, then his landlord, and then a manager at a restaurant his parents frequented. A Seattle man was also critically injured.

Ballistics tests were expected to help determine which weapons might have been used in the shootings.

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