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<title>Daily Cartoon 1: Wednesday, June 10, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Daily Cartoon 1: Wednesday, June 10, 2026

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Crime & Courts

Courts

A Riverton woman whose hands were bleeding sat trapped behind the wheel of a car outside a Catholic church Saturday morning while a stranger wearing only a white bathrobe lay across her body, according to a charging affidavit filed in Fremont County Circuit Court by Riverton Police Sgt. Charles Marshall.

The bizarre scene unfolded in broad daylight outside St. Margaret's Catholic Church and the parish school where a passerby spotted what she believed was a woman in trouble and flagged down police.

By Monday afternoon, Christopher Adkins was sitting in court facing three felony charges — kidnapping, robbery and aggravated burglary.

If convicted on the most serious charge, Adkins could spend the rest of his life in prison.

Court records show Adkins made his initial appearance Monday and is being held on a $10,000 cash-only bond. He has not entered a plea. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 16.

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Officers were dispatched shortly after 10 a.m. Saturday to St. Margaret's Catholic Church on East Fremont Avenue for a report of a possible domestic dispute, wrote Marshall. 

When they arrived, a woman pointed toward a white passenger vehicle parked beside the church and school and immediately told the officer the woman inside needed help.

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The officer wrote that he found the driver's-side door open and observed a man later identified as Adkins "clad in a white bath robe, laying across a female that was seated in the front driver seat of the car."

The man was talking to the woman, though Marshall wrote he could not understand what was being said.

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The officer said he immediately took him to the ground and placed him in handcuffs.

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The woman told investigators she was at the church to place flowers inside.

While she was entering the combination code to the door, she was approached by an unknown male, later identified as Adkins, telling her he needed inside. 

She said Adkins was "talking non-stop," according to court records, "and she got concerned and did not feel comfortable letting him inside the church." 

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"As she went to put the key in the ignition and shut her door," says the affidavit, Adkins got into the car and immediately "grabbed for her keys." 

She told investigators she was assaulted by Adkins for about 15 minutes before police showed up. She sustained a 1-inch gash to her index finger during the scuffle that ultimately required stitches.

At one point, according to the affidavit, she told investigators, "I thought he was going to kill me." 

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"Based on the investigation," wrote Marshall, "Adkins entered a vehicle without authorization and physically assaulted the vehicle owner by cutting her right index finger while attempting to get the keys away from her."

He continued, "Adkins unlawfully confined the vehicle owner from being able to leave, inflicting bodily injury and terrorizing the victim in the process." 

Adkins was booked into the Fremont County Detention Center on Sunday; the affidavit made publicly available in the court system on June 8. 

The felony offense of kidnapping is a serious crime with the possible sentence of 20 years to life in prison. 

Both the robbery and aggravated burglary charges carry a potential sentence up to 10 years in prison for each count. 

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<title>Man In Bathrobe Accused Of Trying To Kidnap Woman From Riverton Church Parking Lot | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A Riverton man in a bathrobe could spend life in prison after police say they found him lying on top of a bleeding woman in a church parking lot in an alleged attempted kidnapping. "I thought he was going to kill me,” the woman told police.

Man In Bathrobe Accused Of Trying To Kidnap Woman From Riverton Church Parking Lot

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Business

It was yet another data-center dominated night for the Cheyenne City Council at its regular session Monday night, with intense, sometimes emotional public testimony on a proposed, roughly 3,460-acre annexation south of the Sweetgrass subdivision and east of South Greeley Highway. 

City staff and Microsoft representatives who were present confirmed the annexation is being advanced to support future expansion of data centers.

No annexation vote was taken. The routine item, which was initially part of a consent agenda, was a referral to the Public Service Committee.

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Ward 1 Councilman Larry Wolfe requested the council take the proposed annexation off the consent agenda so it could be discussed separately. 

The area, Wolfe contended, should not be treated the same as a 2-acre parcel of land. He questioned annexing so much territory into the city at once when there are no specific plans yet attached to it, even as the city is getting ready to update its long-range planning, which Wolfe suggested is 12 years out of date.

“As you look at this giant annexation, and as you look at all of the hullabaloo about it that we have faced as a city council, and your office has faced, did it occur to you all to think maybe this annexation could proceed in a couple of steps?” Wolfe asked Cheyenne Planning and Development Department Director Charles Bloom. “Maybe it might even be better off to just be considered in the future, two, three years from now, when you, in fact, have updated Plan Cheyenne?”

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Mayor Patrick Collins interceded, saying it’s not appropriate for staff to dictate the timing of an annexation. 

“The state law says that if they bring a petition to us, we must look at that petition,” Collins said. “And if it meets the criteria, shall by ordinance annex that property. And so I don’t know that it’s staff’s position to censor applications. That’s our job.”

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“It’s your job to take a look at something of this magnitude and make a judgment about whether or not it ought to proceed through our regular processes,” Wolfe said. “Or, in fact, we might think hard about an annexation of this size for a topic of this controversy, and treat it in some different kind of manner. That’s my point.”

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“I think if you were to poll your colleagues here and say that I have the authority to decide what comes before this governing body, I think you’d lose probably eight to one in that vote,” he said. “I think the job is we’re separate but equal, and when those applications come, we’re part of — all of us together, are the legislative body, the governing body. It should be done as a joint decision.”

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Collins also said he felt the discussion itself is conflating annexation with the development action, which are two separate items.

“Annexation doesn’t do anything but change the color of the map,” Collins said. “What you’re concerned about is what happens once it’s annexed, and that is another process the governing body goes through. That is when we do the zoning for it, when we do the final plat for it, when we do those types of actions. If we were to just annex this property and it sits there for a decade or so, it doesn’t really change anything does it?”

“In 10 years, a couple of things may change,” Wolfe replied. “And I take some guidance from what our good governor just said to us last week in his executive order on data centers. You know, he says local authority and community investment, we’re keeping power close to —”

“Point of order,” another council member interjected. “Are we on annexation? Or are we on data centers?”

“Madam Councilwoman,” Wolfe replied. “You cannot possibly separate them today.”

And so the conversation would roll throughout the public debate, with citizens and officials wrestling over points and points of order all along the way.

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Wolfe said he wants to see developers like Microsoft invest in local housing, charity and infrastructure, and believes annexation is the beginning of the right time to start talking about that.

“We shouldn’t kid ourselves that we are in fact looking at just the annexation,” he said. “This is the time for this council, for this government, for Mr. Bloom to actually take ahold of these issues and make them reality.”

A community benefit requirement, Collins replied, is “too much like extortion.”

“I just don’t agree,” he added. “At this point in time, what we’re doing is annexing a piece of property. If, in fact, the companies want to do some things like we have later on in our agenda, I think that’s well-welcomed, but to condition annexation on that, I think is a slippery slope, sir.”

“Mr. Mayor, it’s not a slippery slope, it’s in fact the slope that we are on right now,” Wolfe replied. “It’s not extortion. I’m talking about something that I’m going to call a mutually beneficial partnership agreement with Microsoft.”

“You can be annexed if you give us what, a rec center or something like that?” Collins said.

“No, no, my proposal is going to be 3% of the total cost of the project,” Wolfe replied.

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Members of the public also came to the podium, both for and against, to discuss their own points and their own frustrations with city processes. 

Harmony Meadows resident Heather Madrid questioned the council’s use of an outdated land-use map.

“How is this protecting the health, safety, and welfare of people?” she asked. “If people don’t live there yet, it’s not really protecting anybody. In fact, I would argue that it’s harmful to that area.”

Such a large annexation, meanwhile, is going to affect the entire city, Madrid said, not just people who may live within 300 feet of the facility. 

“If there’s no plan of what’s going to happen over the next 10 years, how is it even possible that the criteria in Wyoming statute … has been met?” she asked. “At the Planning Commission, Microsoft was asked how many buildings and they didn’t know. 

“So how is it even possible to say that that statute has been met if there is no plan?”

The city should update everything before proceeding, Madrid added, and consider “not only what benefits global corporate billionaires who are trying to land grab in rural America.”

Speaking for the annexation was Brian Napier, a Cheyenne resident who has worked for Microsoft since 2016.

“I’ve been with Microsoft for 10 years and everything I’ve ever seen with the company has been positive, working with the community and trying to be a good neighbor,” he said. “If I didn’t believe that, I wouldn’t be standing in front of you here, on their behalf, today.”

Napier said the company has hired 100 people in the past three years, jobs that he characterized as “good” with “great benefits.”

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The annexation which drew so many comments is the largest Cheyenne has ever seen at 3,459 acres land, 46% of which is contiguous to city limits. 

The only annexation to rival it in size, according to city officials during the meeting, was the Sweetgrass annexation. Records show that was a 2,269-acre project, brought into the city in 2018 near the intersection of East College Drive and Avenue C, south of Laramie County Community College.

It took another 1,000 acres to get to the project to annex it, Cheyenne planner Connor White said during the council meeting, making the two comparable in size.

The plan for that was a buildout over 50 years, White added.

“The main reason they did it all at once is because they wanted a unified development program for the Sweetgrass development,” he said. “The PUD (Planned Unit Development) has changed a few times. You’ve changed it probably within the last few months. So it changes, yes.”

At the time, it represented a major growth spurt for Cheyenne at one-sixth the city’s size, one that was going to require more staff members for various city departments to take care of the land. 

“That was … a higher impact on city services, fully built out,” he said. “But we had a greater standard of review on that larger annexation than we did with say someone annexing single-family homes to connect to sewer. So I just wanted to shed light on what’s happened in the past.”

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Microsoft officials said it has identified the annexation area as a logical future expansion for the Bison Business Park, and decided it’s best to pursue that with Cheyenne.

For long-range planning, it’s important the company knows the zoning for the area.

After that, it can begin transportation, cultural, environmental, noise, and other studies.

An open house was held for the project with neighboring landowners, which was attended by three people. 

A more general community forum was also held during that general timeframe, which drew around 150 people to learn more about Microsoft’s plans in Cheyenne.

Rachel Irwing, land development and permitting manager for Microsoft, said the size of the Highlands project represents a long-term commitment from the company to plan and grow responsibly in Cheyenne. 

“Large contiguous parcels with the infrastructure characteristics needed for future development are increasingly rare,” she said. “Planning comprehensively now allows us to have growth occur thoughtfully and with the city’s input and with the public’s input over time, rather than incrementally and reactively, parcel by parcel.”

That doesn’t mean that all of the 3,050 acres Microsoft will own is being developed all at once. 

“Complete and full build-out of the site would likely be a 10- to 20-year phased development,” she said. “The larger planning area provides flexibility to responsibly coordinate infrastructure, transportation, utilities, buffering, environmental concessions, and future community needs over many years, and in alignment with market demand and infrastructure readiness.”

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These efforts further reflect a long-term commitment by Microsoft to Cheyenne, Microsoft Community Affairs Senior Manager Lucas Downey said.

“Microsoft is not new to Cheyenne,” he said. “We’ve called Cheyenne home since 2012 and from the start we’ve tried to be good neighbors, not just a company with a footprint here, but a partner in the community’s future.”

Downey said more community forums are planned in the future, so collect feedback from the public about what matters to them, and to ensure that those concerns are appropriately addressed.

“We want to keep listening, keep showing up, and keep addressing your feedback directly,” he said. “We’ve also tried to back up our words with investment. Since 2018, Microsoft has supported 56 community projects across 28 local organizations, and we’ve donated $4.7 million to local nonprofits and organizations across Wyoming.”

Those groups range from Boys and Girls Club Cheyenne and Laramie County Community College to Habitat for Humanity, Climb Wyoming, Cheyenne Frontier Days and many more.

Microsoft is committed to paying the full cost of its electricity bill so that residential rates are not affected and to minimizing water use and being good stewards of the water shed. 

The company’s commitment to Cheyenne also includes creating jobs, investing in local training and nonprofits, and contributing to local taxes that support public services.

“In 2025, Microsoft was the No. 1 taxpayer in the city of Cheyenne,” Downey said. “We know trust is earned, not announced. 

"We’re committed to earning it this summer and for years to come,” he added. "We’re not just proud of the 14 years we’ve been a part of the community, we’re genuinely excited for the decades that are still to come. Cheyenne isn’t just where we operate, it’s where we intend to keep growing, contributing, and building in partnership with the community.”

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“We don’t make decisions like this, haven’t before, and certainly not in such a politically charged atmosphere, with so many nearby aspects,” Councilman Pete Laybourn said toward the end of the discussion. “And I don’t think we can look at this in that narrow view that’s been suggesting tonight that we’re changing the color on the map, Mr. Mayor. 

We’re not changing the color on the map,” he continued. “We are adopting the rules and regulations of the city. That’s a really serious thing.”

The needs of South Cheyenne, which is immediately adjacent to the proposed land that’s being annexed, need to be fully considered in context with the annexation, Laybourn suggested. 

“I believe there’s contributions that should be considered to help that neighborhood,” he said. As well as other issues here in the city.”

Given the public interest and concerns surrounding data centers right now — and Microsoft’s expansion plans in particular — Laybourn suggested it’s actually a huge problem that the most recent minutes from the Planning Commission, which dealt with recommendations related to the annexation, are unavailable to the council, even in draft form.

“When we don’t have the minutes, we don’t have a real chance to discuss the action they took,” he said. “And they took several votes. I personally don’t want to call on my recollection.

"I think we need to go to the record. I think that’s a very important part of this. And certainly 

those minutes can be dispersed as draft minutes,” Laybourn added. "We (shouldn’t) have to wait a month for them to be approved by the next meeting of the commission. There’s got to be some middle ground on this.”

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<title>In Emotional City Council Meeting, Cheyenne Weighs Record Microsoft Annexation | Cowboy State Daily</title>

It was yet another data-center dominated night for the Cheyenne City Council on Monday, with intense, sometimes emotional public testimony on what would be the largest annexation in Cheyenne history. The annexation will support expansion of data centers.

In Emotional City Council Meeting, Cheyenne Weighs Record Microsoft Annexation

A Missouri truck driver is facing criminal charges after an alleged 

 involving a commercial vehicle and failing to demonstrate the English proficiency required of interstate truck drivers. 

What might have been an obscure traffic citation a year ago has become part of a national debate. 

Wyoming lawmakers, the Wyoming Highway Patrol and U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, have all spent 

 pushing for stricter enforcement of English-language requirements for commercial truck drivers operating on Wyoming highways. 

Anvarjon Ganiyevich Muminov, whose listed address is in Columbia, Missouri, was charged Monday afternoon in Sweetwater County Circuit Court with leaving the scene of an accident involving damage to an attended vehicle, commercial vehicle operator non-English proficiency, careless driving and failure to maintain a single lane.

A settlement conference is scheduled for July 14. A jury trial is set for Oct. 15.

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The case began around 5:12 p.m. June 5 when Sweetwater County Sheriff's Deputy Otte was dispatched to Interstate 80 near mile marker 128 eastbound for a reported hit-and-run, says an affidavit filed by Sweetwater County Deputy and Prosecuting Attorney Alex Breckenridge. 

When Otte arrived, he reportedly found a tan Toyota Avalon with Wyoming plates sitting on the shoulder with extensive damage.

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The driver of the car told deputies he had pulled onto the shoulder and opened the driver's door so he could retrieve coolant from the trunk. A front-seat passenger said she was standing in front of the Toyota and a rear-seat passenger said he was outside near the guardrail.

Then, according to the affidavit, a passing semi-truck struck the driver's side of the Toyota.

The impact shattered glass, left scrape marks and paint transfer, and heavily damaged the sedan's driver-side door and rear quarter panel.

One passenger told investigators she was standing directly in front of the vehicle when it was hit.

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A witness told deputies he watched the crash happen from about 3 to 4 car lengths behind the semi. Court records show he advised the semi "was on the white line and veering towards the vehicle." 

The witness said he could see a male by the rear driver side door, and when he noticed that he watched the semi "jerk his truck, a kid run back to the rear area of the car, and then the collision happened." 

About 80 miles away, Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper Luke Lenke located a semi-truck matching the description near mile marker 209. Lenke photographed damage to the truck's grille and passenger side and sent the images to investigators.

Deputies identified the driver as Muminov and requested that he return to Sweetwater County for questioning.

Muminov allegedly told investigators he had been traveling about 75 mph and did not see anything.

When shown a photograph of the damaged Toyota, Muminov "just nodded his head," the affidavit notes. 

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Muminov told authorities his native language is Russian, "but he would try to communicate in the little English he knew," wrote Breckenridge. 

Without going into detail, the affidavit says Muminov was unable to demonstrate English proficiency during the test following the crash. 

Federal regulations require interstate commercial drivers to be able to read and speak English well enough to converse with the public, understand highway signs and signals, respond to official inquiries and complete reports.

Muminov has not entered a plea, and the case is scheduled to move forward this summer in Sweetwater County Circuit Court.

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Federal regulations have long required interstate commercial drivers to be able to read and speak English well enough to understand road signs, respond to law enforcement and complete required records.

The issue gained renewed attention in Wyoming last year when Hageman urged federal transportation officials to strengthen enforcement of the rule, arguing that non-English-proficient commercial drivers posed a safety concern on roads such as Interstate 80.

It continued to gain momentum after President Donald Trump signed an April 2025 

 directing federal officials to reinstate stricter enforcement standards for commercial drivers who cannot demonstrate English proficiency.

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, expanding authority to enforce English-proficiency standards beyond specially certified state troopers and allowing law enforcement agencies across Wyoming to take action against commercial drivers who fail the test.

The law established a $1,000 penalty for a first offense and additional penalties for repeat violations.

Court records show Muminov was granted a $1,000 appearance bond, meaning he is allowed to remain free pending future court dates. 

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<title>Russian-Speaking Trucker Charged With I-80 Hit-And-Run, Failing English Proficiency Test | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A Russian-speaking truck driver faces criminal charges after allegedly hitting a disabled car on I-80 and then leaving the scene. Court documents say he failed an English proficiency test and simply nodded when shown the damaged vehicle.

Russian-Speaking Trucker Charged With I-80 Hit-And-Run, Failing English Proficiency Test

Headshot of Cowboy State Daily's managing editor, Greg Johnson.

Greg Johnson

Public Safety

BAGGS — Waking up in this usually sleepy town of 411 people Tuesday morning, you wouldn’t know that only eight hours earlier it was the scene of a major multi-state response to an active shooter that ended with a Carbon County Sheriff’s Office deputy shot multiple times and a dead suspect.

As late as 10 p.m. Monday, the initial crime scene ­— a nondescript off-yellow, two-story apartment building — was surrounded by dozens of law enforcement vehicles and crime-scene tape a stone’s throw from southbound Wyoming Highway 789.

Along with the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office, the Wyoming Highway Patrol, Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office, Rawlins Police Department and at least a half-dozen other agencies from Wyoming and northern Colorado had responded.

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Folks were up early and in their heavy-duty trucks on their way to job sites, the pickups dusty in a way that says they work as hard as their drivers.

They did their usual rounds, stopping for breakfast, coffee, and a little gossip to start the day.

On Tuesday, there was little gossip as conversations were dominated by Monday’s deadly incident.

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Now in her 80s, Linda Fleming grew up in Baggs and has lived her life teaching generations of local kids, along with serving a stint as the town’s mayor in the 1980s.

She called Monday’s deadly shootout “something tragic” that also highlights the hero spirit of first responders, along with the neighbors who helped the deputy after being shot multiple times until an ambulance could arrive.

“The most immediate (heroes) were the neighbors who rallied for that deputy,” she told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday morning.

Inquiries to the Carbon County Sheriff’s and coroner’s offices for more information about Monday’s shooting were not returned by the time this story was published. That includes the condition of the deputy and the identification and cause of death of the suspected shooter.

Fleming said she’s not surprised regular people reportedly sprang into action to help the deputy, along with local EMS that was at the scene quickly.

“It’s just what we do,” she said. “We don’t have any local police, so people help and don’t give it a second thought.”

She also said that while violent episodes like Monday’s have become rare for Baggs, that wasn’t always the case.

“I was mayor in the ’80s when we had a pretty serious drug problem at that time,” Fleming said. “But we didn’t have anything like the shooting of a police officer.”

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At the Stage Stop General Store, the usual suspects were in their usual places, sipping coffee from the four stools at the front of the store by the checkout counter.

Like clockwork, as one of the “old geezers” — as one described the group — got up and left, another filtered in to take the empty stool.

The usual gossip was replaced Tuesday with talk about the shooting, the manhunt for the suspect, and then the ultimate ending with a deputy flown to a Colorado hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and a dead suspect.

“I’m reading about it right now on Cowboy State Daily,” said the local on the far end, holding up his phone.

They’re all talkers, until asked their names. “Oh, gee, I guess I forgot it,” one silver-haired coffee drinker quipped, making them all laugh.

What they weren’t vague about was their shock over what happened, and the resulting hourslong shelter-in-place order that shut down the town.

It was the same at the Cowboy Inn Restaurant, where server Brett Ferrier said a full dining room of customers was not allowed to leave.

She also echoed Fleming’s sentiment that she’s not surprised the deputy may owe his life to those fast-acting neighbors.

“This is the best place I’ve lived,” said Ferrier, adding that she moved to the area just last September. “These are real neighbors, they have your back and they’re so welcoming.”

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Nearly 24 hours after local residents were notified via text message of an “active assailant in Baggs area. Please shelter in place,” there’s still little information about a possible motive for the shooting and the condition of the deputy.

In a late-night report Monday, Carbon County Sheriff Alex Bakken confirmed that “the suspect opened fire on the initial responding deputy, striking him several times.”

The suspect then “fled the scene in a small truck,” the report says. “Additional responding deputies and troopers with the Wyoming Highway Patrol engaged in a pursuit with the suspect vehicle on Highway 789 north of Baggs.”

During the pursuit, the suspect again “opened fire on law enforcement … before driving off the highway and coming to a stop.”

The report then says that the suspect “was declared deceased at the scene,” but it’s not clear how the suspect died or if anything happened between the time the vehicle came to a stop and the suspect was declared dead.

The day after a gunfight that left a deputy shot and the suspect dead in Baggs, Wyoming, former mayor Linda Fleming said it's no surprise neighbors rushed to help the fallen deputy. “It's just what we do. People don’t give it a second thought," she said.

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