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Posted on 07/08/2011 10:48:38 AM PDT by SLB
Platte County Law Enforcement responded to a 911 emergency call of shots being fired in the 700 block of Oak Street in Wheatland at approximately 5:54 pm on Thursday, July 7. The Wheatland Police Department and Platte County Sheriff’s Deputies immediately went to the subject residence. After a brief standoff with officers, the suspect, Everett Conant (DOB 1975), surrendered without incident and is in custody. The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation was called to assist in processing the crime scene.
Two victims were treated at the Platte County Memorial Hospital. One victim was pronounced dead at the hospital and one has been transferred to another facility for further treatment. At this time there are four fatalities, some of which are minors.
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Very sad and tragic...particularly in a small town where such things are very rare.
Prayers up for the families.
The FBI spends a fortune trying to develop a profile of serial killers, but nobody spends much time on a family member who butchers the rest of their family, which is much more frequent.
And no, I’m not suggesting a similar approach to serial killers and unhappy family members. Instead, it would help enormously if there was a non-government organization that acted like a suicide prevention hotline.
It would not be easy to set up such a system like this, as such people as family killers are often very embarrassed about the whole situation, and cannot imagine any reasonable way to change things. That is, it would be a lot harder for them to make a phone call than even for someone contemplating suicide.
And this is where profiling could be very useful. Really, to find out what it is about family killers that would encourage them to make a phone call before pulling the trigger.
The first murder was over a woman and took place behind a bar. Bar patrons tackled the shooter as he ran from the scene. $2M cash bond for him.
Wow. I think of Wheatland as a quiet little town.
It used to be. Growing up there in the 1950’s and 60’s was living a Leave it to Beaver life. One attempted bank robbery in the 60’s ended with the rober being followed out of town by a rancher with his handy 30-30 in the back window of his truck and cornering the BG on a dead end road. A murder in the 1950’s of a wife and her boyfriend netted “Tricky Riggles” the title of the oldest living inmate in the Wyoming State Prison. That was the excitement.
When I graduated from Wheatland High School I was related to half the people in the county, but no more. I blame progress in the form of the Basin Electric Power Plant that was constructed there in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Wheatland went from 2,000 to 10,000 in population and all the crime that came with it. Now the population has shrunk again, but the rif-raf is still there.
Sorry to hear that. Most of my experience in Wyoming has been they are really nice people up there. Salt of the earth.
The game refuge is still operating in the Sybille Canyon on US 34. Or it was when I was there in 2006. Lots of elk and one really moth eaten looking moose.
Bad 24 hours for family annihilation killings, what with the Grand RapidS event yesterday evening. I listened to the internet police scanner someone linked in here for the last 1-1/2 hours before the perp offed himself. It was pretty wild. You could hear the officers in the hallway speaking in hushed tones over the radio to the incident commander, while the perp was holed up in the bedroom with a hostage (who made it out).
wheatland wyoming is 70 miles north of Cheyenne and 60 miles west of torrington. small farming and ranching community of 3600 people
cops have never been to this persons house for any reason other then disruptions with kids. the 17 year old was autistic and the 12 year old was behind and i’m not sure the reasoning. He was just starting to understand how to behave in school. the 14 year old was friends with my daughter. the nurder from 3 weeks ago was over a girl. 2 men drinking got in a fight in an alley 1/2 block from the court house. I can’t imagine what the mother is going through but my prayers will be with her.
Just read about this tragedy today in Platte Co Record on- line. I was born and raised in Wheatland when it was a nice small town. There was a similar tragedy a couple days ago where I live in Oregon. A man stabbed his wife and four young children, then set the house on fire. Woman and children all died at the scene or within half hour at ER.
The man survived, but is in critical condition from smoke inhilation. Hard to understand someone doing this to the ones they are supposed to love and protect
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