A Boise crash left man, dog dead. Driver faces vehicular manslaughter charge
Nearly a year after a four-vehicle crash took the lives of a man and a dog, the Boise Police Department announced the arrest of a 54-year-old driver.
After conducting an investigation and forwarding its findings to the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office, police arrested Jeffery Cope on Thursday on a warrant for one count of vehicular manslaughter. According to BPD, evidence indicated that Cope was driving at a “high rate of speed” when he crashed into a car that 66-year-old Mitchell Edwards and his dog were in.
Cope is being held at the Ada County Jail, online records showed.
On April 29, 2025, police responded to a crash on N. Americana Boulevard at the entrance to Ann Morrison Park. Cope’s pickup truck hit Edwards’ car as Edwards was trying to turn left into the park, according to police.
The collision sent the truck and car into two other vehicles that were stopped at the park’s traffic light, police said.
Edwards was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead in an emergency room, a press release from the Ada County Coroner’s Office stated. The coroner determined the cause of death was traumatic blunt force injuries and the manner was accidental.
No one else involved suffered serious injuries from the crash.
