Effort underway to support domestic violence victim charged with homicide

The Abbie Shelter in Kalispell has launched a no-holds-barred activism effort to have the state dismiss, with prejudice, a deliberate homicide charge that was brought last October against Rachel Bellesen, a domestic violence advocate who shot her ex-husband after he allegedly attempted to rape her near a fishing hole in Paradise.

The nonprofit’s executive director, Hilary Shaw, released a call to action last Friday, requesting that the public contact the Office of Attorney General by May 10 to ask that Bellesen’s case be dismissed, with prejudice...