Update: The Fremont County Sheriff's Office at 2:25 p.m. released a statement with more information. The statement says Fremont County Dispatch Center received a 911 call around 3%8 Saturday morning, indicating a male had been stabbed in the 100 block of Honor Farm Road. Responding deputies and officers contacted a group of juveniles on the side of the road.
One juvenile male was unconscious and had an apparent stab wound. Law enforcement and emergency medical personnel rendered aid, but the juvenile soon died on scene.
The investigation revealed that a large group of males who were "familiar with each other" had had a physical altercation, in which the juvenile was stabbed fatally. The suspect and several others involved had fled the scene before law enforcement arrived. No one is in custody as of the press release, it says, adding that the incident was specific to those involved and "not a random act."
The statement directs anyone with information to call Fremont County Sheriff's Detective Wes Barry at 307-332-5611.
The discovery of a dead body Saturday morning on Honor Farm Road just north of Riverton brought at least a dozen law enforcement vehicles and prompted an hourslong investigation, ending with the Fremont County coroner taking custody of the body.
Fremont County Coroner Deputy Kirsten Kenney was on scene when Cowboy State Daily arrived at 7 a.m., as were Fremont County Sheriff’s Detective Anthony Armstrong, Detective Wes Barry, Lt. Kevin Rieman; Riverton Police Department Officer Brandon Brookover and numerous others.
Investigators had blocked off with yellow crime scene tape a quarter-mile stretch of Honor Farm Road that runs alongside the Wyoming Honor Farm prison facility.
The body lay on or near a driveway leading to a white ranch house with a rock chimney on the south side of the road, which is the opposite side of the road from the prison camp.
A lash of crime scene tape lay across the road shoulder on the north side of the road, which is closer to the prison camp. There, the coroner’s deputy and Barry both shot photographs of some points or objects on the ground directly across the road from where the body lay
Investigators had also marked with yellow markers a roughly rectangular portion of the road itself on the north side (westbound lane).
Deputies declined to comment, saying the scene was an active investigation.
Fremont County Sheriff Ryan Lee confirmed in a Saturday- morning text message that there was one decedent, but declined to comment further. His office released a more complete statement about five hours later (see above update).
Fremont County Sheriff's Detective Wes Barry (second from right, in a hat) speaks with other investigators on the scene of a death investigation Saturday morning north of Riverton. (Clair McFarland, Cowboy State Daily) 
Fremont County Sheriff's Detective Anthony Armstrong places a white and teal, high-top sneaker style Nike shoe into an evidence bag, and into the back of an evidence truck. (Clair McFarland, Cowboy State Daily) 
A Fremont County coroner's deputy, a sheriff's detective, and two Riverton Police Department officers discuss a death scene Saturday morning on Honor Farm Road north of Riverton. (Clair McFarland, Cowboy State Daily)
Person Questioned
At 7:15 a.m. Armstrong walked out of the scene and toward a white evidence truck parked to the west of it, carrying a tarnished white and teal-colored Nike high-top sneaker.
He placed the shoe in an evidence bag and into the drawer in the back of the truck, which was a white unmarked Chevy with a bed cap.
At 7:23 a.m., officers and deputies transferred a live person with short black hair, a dark complexion and an average or shorter-than-average height from the back of a Riverton Police Department vehicle into a Fremont County Sheriff’s Office truck.
The person was in investigative detention at that time, an investigator confirmed on scene.
Deputies and officers spoke with the person on at least one occasion.
It became unclear in a later shuffling of trucks whether that person was released or taken into custody.
Kenney and Barry took multiple photos of points on that north shoulder of the road.
Wailing, Then A Scream
At 8 a.m. and a quarter mile away — on the east end of the blocked crime scene — a loud wailing sounded.
The glare of the eastward sun obscured much of the scene. It appeared at least one person sat on the road and either thrashed or kicked her or his legs, then rose back to standing.
At 8:01 a.m. a high-pitched scream sounded, also from the east side of the scene.
Kenney, who had been on the east end, walked back through the blocked portion of the road and away from the wailing at 8:04 a.m.
At 8:07 a.m. a dispassionate male voice on the prison farm’s intercom system said: “No movement in or out of (inaudible) office. No movement.”
The intercom announced at 8:20 a.m. that the farm’s softball field and track were closed until further notice.
Investigators of a death scene Saturday morning north of Riverton took photographs not just of the south side of the road where the body lay, but of points of interest in the road and on its north shoulder as well. (Clair McFarland, Cowboy State Daily) 
Riverton Police Department Officer Brandon Brookover and another officer stand in front of a body which lay on the ground Saturday morning, just before the Fremont County coroner's office took custody of it. (Clair McFarland, Cowboy State Daily) 
(Clair McFarland, Cowboy State Daily)
Collecting Evidence
At 8:27 a.m., Barry carried a long strip of light tan-colored fabric in the back of the sheriff’s truck where the person in investigative detention still sat.
Eleven minutes later, a female Riverton Police Department officer carried what looked like that same fabric or something very similar in one gloved hand, bunched, to the west end of the crime scene and toward the evidence truck.
Armstrong produced a bag and the officer pushed the fabric into it. That bag went into the back of the evidence truck.
An investigator backed the evidence truck into the scene a few feet away from the body, and Barry and others carried objects to it.
At 8:41, Kenney wheeled a gurney out of the back of her truck.
Personnel on scene together lifted a figure in a black bag or shroud, placed it on the gurney and wheeled it to the coroner’s truck.
While some personnel lifted the body from the ground, Brookover and the female officer stood side-by-side in front of it as if to block the view.
Barry collected some scene markers at 8:46 a.m.
A rustling of paper bags sounded from where the evidence truck was parked.
Deputies bunched up crime scene tape and personnel started disbursing at about 8:59 a.m.
Armstrong and Barry both drove away by about 9:06 a.m.
While Honor Farm Road stretches alongside the prison farm, it also spans residential and ranch lands between Highway 789 to the west and Smith Road to the east.
Clair McFarland can be reached at clair@cowboystatedaily.com.
