Bullet hits student apartment in Rexburg during shootout

Police say Daryl Myler of Driggs showed a gun to steal some prescription drugs at Walgreens.

When officers tried to stop him, police say the suspect fired at them.

Police then shot Myler and was taken to the hospital, where he died shortly after.

No officers were injured during the shooting but a BYU-Idaho student says a stray bullet ricocheted into his apartment.

Colin Disparte, 28, is from California.

He moved to Rexburg for school and said in a million years he never thought this would happen in this quaint college town.

“I was scared. I thought someone was trying to shoot me,” he said. “I just felt horrible. My whole body felt horrible. I didn’t really want to come back into my room.”

On Saturday night, he was in his Pinnacle Place apartment near Main Street in Rexburg.

He said he heard something “that sounded like a jackhammer.”

Disparte soon found out a jackhammer was the least of his worries.

“I heard the noise so I walked over to my window to see what was going on, and just as I walked over here to open up the blinds and look out … then the window was shot, and then I just ducked down and ran out,” said Disparte.

The bullet came through the left side of the window.

He said if it would have come through the right side, things may have been different.

“I’m thankful I didn’t get hurt. I definitely feel blessed that I was able to not get shot by a bullet,” said Disparte.

Fellow student Spencer Turner is in his ninth semester at the university and says what happened shouldn’t tarnish BYU-Idaho’s reputation.

“This is probably still the safest place to send your kid than anywhere else in the world,” said Turner.

According to the uniform FBI crime report, in Rexburg, one out of 3,756 people will experience a violent crime.

Rexburg police say the Eastern Idaho Critical Incident task force is investigating because it is an officer-involved shooting.