Boise police have made an arrest in connection to the 2023 death of a local high school coach.
Meridian man Shawn Stacy, 28, has been charged with vehicular manslaughter for the February 2023 crash that killed Loma Bittick, who was a coach and math teacher at Greenleaf Friends Academy. Stacy was also given a persistent violator enhancement.
The crash occurred on Feb. 9, 2023, when Bittick and her husband, Jim Bittick, were on their way to pick up the school’s varsity girls basketball team to take them to their district tournament game. Jim Bittick was the team’s head coach and Loma Bittick was an assistant and also the head coach of the school’s varsity volleyball team.
Police at the time said the crash in Greenleaf happened when a 2009 Volkswagen Jetta traveling westbound on Lower Pleasant Ridge Road, driven by Stacy, failed to yield at a stop sign and hit a 2014 Ford F150 pickup traveling north on Friends Road and driven by Jim Bittick, with Loma Bittick as a passenger. Both Bitticks were ejected from the vehicle and Loma Bittick died after being taken to the hospital . She was 65.