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DCI: Armed suspect dead after fleeing house during standoff

File; Trevor T. Trujillo, Oil City News

CASPER, Wyo. — The suspect in a fatal police shooting is dead after fleeing from the home he’d barricaded himself in, the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation announced Wednesday evening.

The Sheridan police chief announced that the standoff at a Sheridan residence had ended as of 5:12 p.m. The suspect was barricaded in a home near 7th Street and Sheridan Avenue for over a day and refused to surrender, the DCI release said. Special response teams from Gillette and Natrona County assisted the Sheridan Police Department.

“After more than 24 hours of negotiations and other tactics to get the suspect to peacefully surrender, the suspect exited the house with a weapon and tried to flee,” DCI said in the release. “The suspect was shot by police and pronounced dead at the scene.”

The DCI said it will conduct an investigation into the officer involved shooting at the request of the Sheridan Police Department.

On Tuesday morning, an alert was issued in Sheridan for a suspect who reportedly shot at an officer and fled in a red truck. Schools and some other businesses were locked down.

Sheridan police announced Tuesday afternoon that Sgt. Nevada Krinkee, who served the department for over six years, had been shot while attempting to serve a trespass warning, later dying from his injuries at the hospital.

The DCI stated the following in regard to its investigation:

Wyoming DCI is routinely requested to conduct objective and thorough investigations of critical incidents around the state. These investigations consist of, among other investigative procedures, scene processing, physical evidence and forensic processing, digital evidence analysis, and interviews.

At the conclusion of this investigation, a detailed report will be prepared, internally reviewed, and provided to the Sheridan County Attorney’s Office for review and charging consideration. 

All available resources will be made available to Agents conducting this investigation to ensure the facts of what happened are collected in a timely, accurate and thorough manner. DCI has been in contact with the Sheridan County Attorney and will work closely with her office throughout the course of the investigation.

Because this is an on-going and open investigation, the names of the involved parties will not be released by DCI at this time. We do not anticipate releasing additional information until the investigation is complete and a prosecutorial decision has been made.   Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact DCI at 307-777-7181. Wyoming DCI

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