Gary Hill, a White male, was shot and killed on the morning of Sunday, June 15, 2025, after stepping in to help during an attempted carjacking at the Liberty Stop-N-Go in Stateline, Idaho, near the Washington–Idaho border. Authorities described him as a good Samaritan who saw a woman in distress and moved to intervene; the gunman opened fire, killing Hill at the scene. The rampage had begun around 8:30 a.m.
in Spokane Valley, when the suspect stole a vehicle from a father and daughter and fled east at high speed toward Idaho.
What followed was a chaotic stretch of violence across the border. In the Stateline parking lot, the suspect intentionally struck motorcyclist Richard Embree with the stolen car, then tried to seize more vehicles. Amid the frenzy, Hill stepped forward and was fatally shot. Family posts and local coverage later memorialized him as a father and grandfather who died protecting others on Father’s Day.
Investigators identified the suspect as 43-year-old Ryan Tietsort. After the shooting, he fled back into Washington in yet another stolen vehicle. Police deployed spike strips, and the pursuit ended when Tietsort crashed near the intersection of Trent Avenue and Pines Road in Spokane Valley. Armed with a rifle, he exited the vehicle and was shot and killed by law enforcement; the Spokane County Medical Examiner later reported he died of gunshot wounds to the head and neck.
Authorities have not reported any arrests connected to Hill’s killing. The sole suspect, Tietsort, died in the officer-involved shooting that concluded the multistate crime spree that same morning. Subsequent reports tied the events together as a single sequence—beginning with the carjacking in Spokane Valley, the fatal shooting of Hill in Stateline, the vehicular assault on Embree, and ending with Tietsort’s death under police fire—leaving no outstanding suspects publicly identified by agencies at that time.
In the days that followed, regional outlets and community pages marked the loss. Gun violence trackers listed Hill’s death on June 15, 2025, and local newsrooms ran tributes noting how he tried to shield strangers from harm. A memorial fundraiser described him as a hero whose final act prevented further injury, and editorials in nearby Idaho echoed the same—a portrait of a bystander who chose to help, and paid with his life.
