Suicide

The family of the late Mick McMurry will conduct a public service at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, the Casper Events Center, according to a press release from the family.

Casper businessman and philanthropist Mick McMurry died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound early Tuesday, the Natrona County Coroner said Wednesday.

Four people were found dead Tuesday in Colorado after a woman called police to report a shooting and was apparently shot to death while she was on the phone.

A Wyoming man accused of shooting at law officers after a vehicle chase in western South Dakota has pleaded guilty to lesser charges.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — An inmate who died at the Natrona County jail in March committed suicide. Thirty-two-year-old Larry Turner, Jr. was found dead March 24, a day after being booked into the jail for allegedly violating his bond. According to the Associated Press, Natrona County coroner Connie Jacobson said that Turner intentionally overdosed on morphine and left a note explaining his intention...

The U.S. suicide rate is the highest in 15 years, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report found the suicide rate has been on the rise since 2000, and hit its highest point in 2009.

Laramie County investigators say it appears a Cheyenne woman killed herself and her 11-year-old daughter in an arson fire last week. The Laramie County Sheriff’s Office on Friday identified the dead girl as Miriam Ortiz. Ortiz is the daughter of 34-year-old Erica Delgado, who was also found dead in the burned trailer on the south side of Cheyenne on Feb 3.

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state authorities say they’re not happy with the performance of a 911 dispatcher during last weekend’s murder-suicide involving the husband of a missing Utah woman. Pierce County Sheriff’s Detective Ed Troyer tells The Associated Press that when a social worker called to report that Josh Powell had taken his two young sons into his home during what was supposed to be a su