A person was shot Wednesday on Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation, the FBI has confirmed.
The shooting happened in the town of Ethete around midday Wednesday. Around that time, the nearby Wyoming Indian schools system went into lockdown mode for about an hour, the school confirmed to Cowboy State Daily.
When contacted by Cowboy State Daily, the FBI gave little information about the shooting. It confirmed via follow-up questions that no arrests have been made.
Scanner traffic from the time indicated that law enforcement responders called emergency medical personnel to a location in Ethete on a report of a single gunshot wound to a person’s abdomen with no exit wound.
Agents issued be-on-the-lookout pertaining to a person on the run. Officers speaking on the scanner said they saw a man fleeing.
One female was detained after the shooting; she had blood on her but was uninjured, according to scanner traffic from the time. A dispatcher asked non-federal law enforcement agencies to respond to the scene because a woman who may or may not have been involved with the shooting was non-native.
(County and state authorities - not tribal and federal police - are tasked with handling potential crimes involving non-native people on the reservation.)
An agent noted on the scanner that an FBI agent was headed to the hospital.
“Do I need to follow?” asked the agent.
The FBI is coordinating with the Wind River Police Department, which is the reservation’s law-enforcement outpost for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, and with other law enforcement agencies, says a Wednesday email the FBI sent to Cowboy State Daily.
“This is an ongoing investigation and additional information is not available at this time,” the email concludes.
Clair McFarland can be reached at clair@cowboystatedaily.com.
