A teenage girl accused of shooting two young men at a rural Sweetwater County bonfire in February 2025 has pleaded no contest, and agreed to a prison stint that might be reduced if she completes Wyoming’s youthful offender “boot camp” program.
Addisyn Rain Marie Fisher’s sentencing will happen at a date not yet set. The teen, who was 16 when charged as an adult last year, pleaded no contest Thursday in Sweetwater County District Court.
Judge Suzannah Robinson does not have to accept the plea agreement. She has until sentencing to decide whether she will.
Fisher was originally charged with two counts of aggravated assault, each punishable by up to 10 years in prison, on investigators’ claims that she fired a pistol at two men who were in a fight with her 20-year-old boyfriend.
The case affidavit says she shot one man through the hand and another in the jaw area. This was after Fisher's boyfriend chased down other youth in a truck, court documents allege.
The Sweetwater County Attorney’s Office charged Fisher as an adult Feb. 3, 2025.
Fisher, through her attorney Nate Jeppsen, urged the court to send the case into juvenile court instead, where a youth can be adjudicated delinquent rather than convicted of a crime, but the judge declined.
Four weeks before her case’s trial was set to unfold in a trial Oct. 26, the case settled in a plea agreement.
Fisher agreed to plead no contest to one of the two aggravated assault charges. The parties agreed on a five-to-eight-year prison sentence, with a recommendation for the youthful offender transition program.
Commonly called the “boot camp” program, the young adults and teens who complete it — generally in less than a year — often win sentence reductions.
Restitution in this case is to-be-determined and Fisher would pay various court costs and fees, the agreement says.
Fisher’s pre-trial conference hearing was set for Thursday but after she signed the plea agreement Wednesday that converted to a change of plea hearing.
Court Docs Say …
Investigators were called to the Pits at about 20 minutes after midnight around Feb. 1, 2025, says an evidentiary affidavit complied by Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Detective Matthew Wharton.
Two men were already at the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County, one with a gunshot wound in his neck or jaw area and another who’d been shot through the hand, says the document.
Wharton made it to the hospital 11 minutes before 1 a.m. There, he met other deputies and a Rock Springs Police Department officer who had been taking statements from witnesses gathered at the hospital.
One female witness, a young woman, told a deputy that while she and a teenage girl rode along in a man’s truck on the way to the bonfire, Fisher’s boyfriend chased them down in his own truck and rammed into them.
Another man “was pissed off” by this. He and the man whose truck had been struck fought with Fisher’s boyfriend, says the document.
Standing about 20 feet away, Fisher shot a 9 mm gun two or three times at the two men fighting her boyfriend, the witness said.
Next Witness
Investigators also interviewed a 17-year-old girl, who said she remembered Fisher’s boyfriend speeding at them in his truck as she rode along with the male driver and the other witness, the document says.
The driver sped up so his truck wouldn’t be damaged, the girl recalled.
Once they arrived at the bonfire, Fisher’s boyfriend drove down the hill and bumped into the back of the man’s truck, causing it to roll forward.
Then Fisher’s boyfriend backed up, revved his truck and sped up the hill, angling his headlights toward the bonfire, the witness said.
The witness said Fisher got out of the truck and stood on top of the hill.
The girl heard a gunshot from behind her, and a bullet whizzed past her ear, she said.
The girl told investigators she believed a male she didn’t recognize had fired the shot after yelling something, says the document.
That’s when the fight broke out, she added.
One man pinned Fisher’s boyfriend down while the man with the stricken truck punched him repeatedly, the affidavit says.
Citing the witness’ account, the document says Fisher walked around her boyfriend’s truck, pointed the gun at the two men who were beating her boyfriend and fired two shots, striking both of them.
One man held his face while saying that he’d been shot. Fisher said nothing, the witness said.
The Man With The Stricken Truck
The man whose truck had been hit was shot through the hand, says the affidavit. The other man was shot in the neck area, it adds.
Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Detective Ashley Merrell interviewed the man whose truck had been hit.
He told her Fisher’s boyfriend had been driving recklessly and trying to crash into him, until he did rear-end his truck.
When the three men met face-to-face outside their vehicles, Fisher’s boyfriend took a swing at the third man, who slammed him to the ground and pinned him there, the affidavit says.
The man with the damaged truck said he was planning to break up the fight.
He noticed Fisher in the corner of his eye and watched her reach for something, the affidavit says. But then he heard the gunshot and felt the projectile go through his hand. He heard a second, then a third shot, he said.
People helped get the third man to the truck.
Fisher and her boyfriend left the scene, with the gun still in Fisher’s hand, the affidavit says.
Fisher was arrested without incident the Monday after the shootings.
Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
Sweetwater County Deputy Attorney Alex Breckenridge conceded in late April 2025 that Fisher appeared to be a good student, carrying a 3.7 grade-point average and planning to graduate early that May.
But Breckenridge also but argued that her GPA speaks to her adult-level sophistication, supporting the notion she should be charged as an adult.
Breckenridge also argued that Fisher has ties to a biker gang.
He wrote in his argument in April 2025 that a gang attended Fisher’s initial appearance after she was charged. The prosecutor told the court that he believed Fisher’s stepfather was the president of the local chapter of the Sons of Silence, an openly outlaw motorcycle gang.
According to Breckenridge’s filing, Sons of Silence members attended Fisher’s initial court appearance in matching attire.
“These individuals appear to be her support system,” the prosecutor wrote.
Jeppsen countered in a comment to Cowboy State Daily, saying, “She is not a member and has no interest in the Sons of Silence.”
The defense attorney also pointed to Fisher’s academic success and lack of criminal history.
‘Business Was Handled. Amen’
Breckenridge’s filing says Fisher “is believed to have had” a text exchange with a peer in which she seemed giddy about the shooting.
“Sum insane arguing,” the peer texted, according to Breckenridge’s filing. “U just get shot at”
“No I didn’t but people f***ed around,” Fisher responded, allegedly.
“Swear there was gun shots then everyone just dipped,” the peer answered.
“There was gun shots,” wrote Fisher, according to the filing. “But I didn’t get shot at lol.”
The peer reportedly answered: “O shi.”
The filing says Fisher then texted, “We were there to handle business, business was handled. Amen.”
Breckenridge wrote that Fisher tried to solicit an alibi from another peer who was not at the bonfire, writing a detailed list of places Fisher supposedly was with the peer that night.
“I was with you until 11:30. We went to McDonalds before then and when we got back to your house, I told you I needed to go be with my dogs,” Fisher allegedly wrote. “I have not been with Hopper since two days ago.”
Clair McFarland can be reached at clair@cowboystatedaily.com.
