[SD] Chief's wife Pam Huber shot in head - No arrest yet

(Note: In the past - at least - 8 years Ken Huber has only spent 1 month NOT being a police chief, so this "former chief" stuff means nothing. Word play at a serious time.)
...PAM HUBER REMAINS UNCONSCIOUS AND ON LIFE SUPPORT... "THE PROGNOSIS IS NOT GOOD. SHE MAY SURVIVE, BUT IT'S UNLIKELY SHE WILL RECOVER CONSCIOUSNESS"...

News from Oct 29 - Nov 1:

Highmore Shooting
KELOLAND TV, SD
10/29/2007
[Excerpts] A man who served as police chief in two central South Dakota towns is now at the center of a shooting investigation.... The attorney general's office says Huber called 911 late Sunday night from the couple's home in Highmore but the AG's office isn't releasing any other details at this point. HUBER IS NOT IN CUSTODY AT THIS TIME. PAM HUBER IS IN A SIOUX FALLS HOSPITAL TONIGHT AND IS LISTED IN CRITICAL CONDITION. She's Highmore's city finance officer and also runs a small embroidery business in town... As for Ken Huber. He had worked as Highmore's Police Chief for nearly ten years. This summer he took a leave of absence to go work in Miller to help that police department out. But in August, the Highmore City Council asked Huber to make a decision of where he wanted to work, Highmore or Miller. He chose Miller. But city officials told KELOLAND News Huber only worked there for a few months before resigning in October.

Highmore Police Chief Ken Huber
Protection Order: Former Police Chief Shot Wife In Head
KELOLAND TV
Don Jorgensen djorgensen@keloland.com
10/30/2007
[Excerpts] An 11-year-old girl may have witnessed what happened in the moments after her mother was shot in the head. Former Highmore Police Chief KEN HUBER HAS NOT BEEN ARRESTED but according to a protection order filed in Minnehaha County, he is the only suspect in his wife's shooting... PAM HUBER REMAINS ON LIFE-SUPPORT in the Intensive Care Unit... SHE HAS A BULLET STILL LODGED IN HER BRAIN AND SHE IS NOT EXPECTED TO SURVIVE. Her family is by her bedside, but they are also trying to protect her from the man they believe fired the shot... Huber family attorney Matt Theophilus says, "He approached her in bed and shot her one time through the forehead, daughter unfortunately awoke to the sound of the gun shot and saw her mother terribly injured and bleeding and saw her father leaving the room with a gun in his hand." Matt Theophilus is the attorney representing the Huber's 11 and 12 year old daughters, and Pam Huber's son. The three have filed a protection order against Ken Huber because he has not been arrested and they do not want him to harm them or their mother. Theophilus says, "Their concern is what will he do in the future"... The protection order says Huber has physically and emotionally abused Pam Huber for at least 10 years, but she never reported it. "She has never felt able to report this for fear of reprecussions given his positions as chief of police." The family says they've seen a change in Ken Huber since he left his jobs as police chief in both Highmore and Miller. Theophilus says, "He was really suffering from some depression and possible abuse of medications and using that with alcohol as a result of his loss of jobs and the prestige of being chief of police." Theopholis also says Ken Huber is the one who called 911 after the shooting and actually performed first aid on Pam Huber before authorities got to the scene... Ken Huber has been told not to leave the area.

Wife's family accuses ex-chief in her shooting
Argus Leader
By Matthew Gruchow
October 31, 2007
[Excerpts] ...Ken Huber shot her with a Glock .44-caliber pistol while she was in bed with one of her daughters. The order goes on to state that Huber is on life-support and is "not expected to survive... (The) bullet is still lodged in her brain," according to court documents... The state attorney general's office has said it will neither confirm nor deny that Ken Huber is a suspect in the shooting of his wife. But the protection order states that his arrest is "likely imminent upon completion of DCI processing of crime scene"... spokeswoman for the attorney general, said investigators continue to collect evidence at the Hubers' home and other places in the town. "They are not done taking the things they need to get," Rabern said.... The town's current police chief, Ray Kusser, also has refused to answer questions about the shooting. Calls and e-mails sent to the Hyde County sheriff's office seeking comment were not returned... Besides working for the city, Pamela Huber owns an embroidery business in town, said Highmore Mayor Vikki Day... Huber has been with the town's government for more than 25 years, Day said. "She's a very big part of the community," she said... Ken Huber was the Highmore police chief from December 1999 until June. He was the police chief in Miller from June to Sept. 28...

Conflict has state in charge of case
Argus Leader
By Matthew Gruchow
November 1, 2007Publish Post
[Excerpts] ...Attorney General Larry Long confirmed that Hyde County State's Attorney Jennifer Lowrie will not be handling the case because of a conflict of interest but declined to discuss the nature of that conflict... Pam Huber remains unconscious and on life support at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, he said. "The prognosis is not good. She may survive, but it's unlikely she will recover consciousness," Theophilus said. "They don't know if she's going to die now, or if she's going to survive"...