New federal court filings show that a Boise Police officer who was cleared earlier this year of wrongdoing in the shooting of an Idaho Department of Correction officer during the 2024 Saint Alphonsus prison escape is now at the center of another lawsuit.
IDOC Corporal Christopher Wilske filed the lawsuit against the City of Boise, Boise Police Officer Wayne Anderson, and Ada County, claiming the shooting violated his constitutional rights and never should have happened.
The lawsuit stems from the March 2024 escape of inmate Skylar Meade from Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise.
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Idaho News 6 first covered the incident after investigators said Meade’s accomplice, Nicholas Umphenour, ambushed correctional officers outside the hospital, shooting two officers and helping Meade escape custody…