A neighbor of Markus Kaarma claims that she had a road rage altercation with the man who is currently headed to trial for the shooting death of foreign exchange student Diren Dede, and that the incident happened just hours before the shooting occurred.
German investigators in slain exchange student Diren Dede's hometown of Hamburg have asked authorities in Missoula for details into the investigation of his death.
Markus Kaarma, 29, appeared in Missoula District Court on Wednesday morning and entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of deliberate homicide in the death of German exchange student Diren Dede.
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Prosecutors say two boys, ages 16 and 18, have confessed to burglarizing a Missoula residence in the weeks before a German exchange student was shot to death in the garage.
National coverage of the Diren Dede shooting has shined a bright light on a type of juvenile crime called "garage hopping," in which multiple garages will be robbed in quick succession. Despite all the press, Missoula County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Paige Pavalone says that even calls about garage burglaries are fairly rare.