Walnut Creek mourns former East Bay police officer shot and killed in Idaho [Video]

The City of Walnut Creek is mourning the death of a former police officer and high school sports coach, who died in the line of duty while working as a sheriff’s deputy in Idaho.

Tobin Bolter, 27, started at the Pleasant Hill Police Department in 2018, then moved to Idaho and was working for the Ada County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff says Deputy Bolter was shot in Boise Saturday night during a traffic stop. 

A citizen who saw the shooting called 911. Police say that a witness, performed CPR until Bolter was transported to a hospital. He died from his injuries yesterday morning. The sheriff’s department says officers shot and killed the attacker following a manhunt.

Bolter was a 2015 graduate of Berean Christian High School in Walnut Creek, where he later worked as a cross country and track and field coach with his wife.

“As a track coach, he …