Local authorities are still searching for a Gillette, Wyoming, man considered “armed and dangerous” and implicated in a shooting, the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office told Cowboy State Daily on Friday.
Kamren Crousore, 18, left a scene on Echeta Road in Gillette after shooting a 19-year-old man following an argument Tuesday, according to a Thursday sheriff’s department announcement.
The 19-year-old, who was life flighted, was recovering Friday.
Campbell County Sheriff’s personnel have been investigating a multitude of tips from the public, but had not found Crousore as of mid-afternoon, said Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds.
Crousore had been sentenced to probation for felony burglaries eight days before the shooting.
District Court Judge F. Scott Peasley sentenced Crousore on Feb. 24 to five years’ supervised probation for a Niobrara County and Platte County car-hopping theft spree that unfolded March 20, 2024.
Peasley’s sentencing order says that if Crousore violated any of his probation terms he could spend five to seven years in prison.
Those terms included staying away from drugs and alcohol, possessing no weapons, completing a cognitive thinking class, completing treatment and staying away from the people with whom he’d gone car-hopping last March.
He was also ordered to pay $2,151.16 in restitution.
Crousore and other youths left Gillette around March 19, 2024, then went on a spree of stealing cars and swiping things from cars — including an AR-15 firearm, in the towns of Lusk, Guernsey and Douglas over the course of the night, says the case affidavit.
Campbell County authorities also cited Crousore on Tuesday — the day of the shooting — for an alleged criminal entry offense dating to Sunday, March 2.
Crousore was convicted for drug use and possession when he was about 16, and spent time in jail after using methamphetamine while on probation for those convictions, his court file says.
Crousore's artist-profile Facebook page, which features rap music, says he hails from Sumter, South Carolina. In one of his rap videos on YouTube, Crousore lamented about going to jail.
Clair McFarland can be reached at clair@cowboystatedaily.com.
