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Coeur d'Alene man with ties to Boundary County
plunged to his death in a jump off the Moyie
River Bridge early this morning on Highway 2.According the sheriff's office, the body of Derrick Meister, 21, was recovered from the bank of the Moyie River late this morning after he made an apparently deliberate leap from the bridge just after 1 a.m.
"The motive for the suicide is still unknown and is currently under investigation," the sheriff's office said in a release. "No further information is available at this time."
Meister, formerly of Bonners Ferry, has family in Moyie Springs.
Last May, News Bonners Ferry ran a photo of Meister and nine other North Idaho College students, who donated their spring break working with Habitat For Humanity in Skagit County, Washington. The image above was taken from that photo.
Our heartfelt condolences go out to the family and friends he left behind.