Upper Columbia Academy Guitar Teacher Killed

December 6, 2022

Doug Brant, elder and member of the Upper Columbia Academy church, registered nurse, and guitar teacher at Upper Columbia Academy, was killed Thursday, December 1, 2022.

By: Autumn Dunzweiler

UCC communications coordinator


Douglas (Doug) Brant, 56, elder and member of the Upper Columbia Academy church, registered Providence nurse, and guitar teacher at Upper Columbia Academy in Spangle, Washington, was shot and killed Thursday, December 1, 2022.


Brant's life was cut short Thursday, when a 33-year-old man shot and killed him while treating the shooter's grandmother at her Spokane home. After a manhunt that lasted nearly a day, police arrested the shooter on Friday near where the shooting occurred.


Brant was active in his local church, serving as an elder, musician, and audio/visual technician.


“It’s a shocking and tragic loss,” said Kevin Wilfley, pastor at Upper Columbia Academy church. "His greatest desire was to love and honor Jesus. To say he will be greatly missed is an understatement."


To read more on this story, visit news.uccsda.org/brant1222.

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