Charles Christopher Holloway

Charles Christopher Holloway

An apparently intoxicated Bellevue man accused of murder stayed up until the wee hours of the morning Thursday playing video games and the bongos before shooting a roommate, a witness told police.

Later, a law enforcement officer shot and wounded the suspect when he pointed a gun at him, records say.

Charles Christopher Holloway, 44, appeared irritated, the witness said, when a roommate, Josh Takacs, came into the game room of the home at 4 a.m., threw something on the floor, then left the room while slamming doors behind him, according to court documents.

Holloway appeared intoxicated and might have inhaled THC through a vape pen, according to the witness.

“I’m going to kill him,” Holloway told the witness. He then picked up an item, which the witness assumed was a gun, and left the room, records say.

The witness described hearing something that sounded like a firecracker and Holloway came back into the room and said, “I just killed him.” The witness said Holloway agreed to let him leave and told him that he “had a plan.”

The witness called law enforcement officers and a Bellevue deputy marshal responded to the scene at about 6 a.m. and confronted Holloway, bodycam footage shows. Holloway then pointed a handgun at the deputy marshal.

The deputy marshal shot Holloway about three times, records say, and Holloway was flown to a Boise hospital.

Blaine County Sheriff’s Office and Idaho State Police are conducting a joint investigation related to the homicide, while the Magic Valley Critical Incident Task Force, led by the Jerome County Sheriff’s Office, is investigating the officer-involved shooting.

A GoFundMe page, set up to help Takacs’ mother pay for expenses, has raised more than $12,000 as of Tuesday afternoon.

Recommended for you

Welcome to the discussion!

The Idaho State Journal invites you to take part in the community conversation. But those who don't play nice may be uninvited.

Comments that are:

  • off topic
  • defamatory
  • libelous
  • obscene
  • racist
  • abusive
  • threatening
  • an invasion of privacy (doxxing)
  • profane (including attempts to misspell profanity in order to get around the profanity filter)

will be deleted. Repeat offenders will lose commenting privileges.

Comments are opinions of the author only, and do not reflect the opinions or views of Idaho State Journal.