WYOMING DEPUTY SHOT NEAR COLORADO BORDER; GUNMAN DEAD

UPDATE

A gunman wounded a sheriff's deputy Monday in Baggs, Wyoming, about three miles north of the border with western Colorado.

Carbon County, Wyoming, sheriff's deputies and Wyoming state troopers chased the gunman's truck on Highway 789 and he was found dead after another round of gunfire, the Carbon County Sheriff's Office said. The wounded deputy was airlifted to a hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado. He was struck several times. Dispatchers had lost radio contact. A regional SWAT team from Colorado responded to the shooting as did a member of the Colorado State Patrol. The Moffat County, Colorado, Sheriff's Office said: "A robotic platform and unmanned aerial systems (drones) were deployed to safely assess the situation. Through those efforts, law enforcement personnel determined that the male suspect was deceased inside the vehicle."