A woman traveling north of Riverton on Friday afternoon found a man lying on the ground of a traffic pullout in front of her RV, yelling that he’d killed his girlfriend and asking someone to call 911, the local sheriff’s office reports.
The man, 40-year-old Anthony Ray Sullivan of Billings, Montana, is suspected of killing a 37-year-old woman, the Billings Police Department wrote in a Saturday statement.
At 10:31 a.m. Friday, Billings police officers responded to the 6400 block of Southern Bluff Lane for a “suspicious death,” and they found a 37-year-old woman dead in a home, the statement says.
Detectives spent the day processing the scene and identified Sullivan as having fled the home in the woman’s vehicle. Detectives issued an attempt-to-locate notice for the vehicle and learned that Sullivan was in the Fremont County Detention Center on “unrelated charges,” says the statement.
Yelling That He Killed Her
Sullivan’s arrest played out on a traffic pullout just north of Riverton on Highway 789, Fremont County Undersheriff Mike Hutchison told Cowboy State Daily on Monday.
“We got a call from a motorist,” said Hutchison, adding that the call came in about 3:21 p.m. on the Fourth of July holiday.
The motorist, an adult female traveling in an RV, was reporting that a man had been lying on the ground in front of the RV, “yelling” that he’d killed his girlfriend and asking someone to call 911, said the undersheriff.
By the time deputies arrived the man, Sullivan, was standing in front of a white Toyota SUV, said Hutchison.
Deputies arrested him.
Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers soon responded and also recommended a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Sullivan was set to appear in Riverton Circuit Court on Monday morning but the jail said he was not able to appear that day, the court told Cowboy State Daily.
North Of Here
Authorities in Billings have charged Sullivan with deliberate homicide and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. He is “pending extradition back to Yellowstone County,” says the Billings PD statement.
The Billings Police Department voiced gratitude toward the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, Wyoming Highway Patrol and Yellowstone County Sheriff’s Office of Montana.
Scanner traffic from Friday afternoon indicated Sullivan was "crying, weeping" at the pullout and saying he'd hit his girlfriend with the vehicle; and that there was damage to the vehicle he'd been driving.
Clair McFarland can be reached at clair@cowboystatedaily.com.
