Wyoming man ‘went hunting’ for drunk homeless people

The reservation is home to the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes.

According to the Associated Press, Roy Clyde shot Stallone Trosper and James “Sonny” Goggles, Jr., as they slept on mattresses inside the center. Clyde is a 13-year city employee and was apparently acting out of rage at people known as “park rangers”, Native Americans who leave nearby Wind River Indian Reservation – where drinking is illegal – to drink in the city’s public parks. He said Clyde reported the shooting to police.

“The trend of violence against Indian people in and around Riverton is alarming”, Dean Goggles, chairman of the Northern Arapaho Business Council, said in a prepared statement.

Clyde reportedly told investigators he had been planning on killing “park rangers” for some time. Responding officers arrested Clyde outside the center and jailed him on a charge of first-degree murder, Murphy said.

A preliminary hearing has been set for 29 July. Police have said the centre caters for people with addiction problems. Fremont County’s Coroner will release the identity of the man who died Tuesday. It’s a thought few ever harbor, but then again when one is assigned to cleaning up after homeless people such vivid fantasies can in fact become reality- case in point, Wyoming shooter, Roy Clyde, 32 who in fact did go out hunting for homeless people.

He wrote: “He specifically indicated that if he had encountered white people meeting his criteria, he would have killed them as well”.

John R. Powell, a spokesman for the USA attorney’s office in Cheyenne, said, “Our office is aware of the shooting incident in Riverton and we remain in contact with local agencies regarding the investigation”.

Police say Center of Hope staff grabbed as many clients as they could and locked them in a bathroom when the shooting started. As he walked back out, he placed a handgun on the ground and was arrested soon thereafter. Any hate crime prosecution would have to be on the federal level because Wyoming has no hate crime law, Murphy said.

The victims “are members of our tribe, they are human beings and they matter to us”, Norman Willow, a member of the business council, said in a statement.

Heath Steel of the Volunteers of America Northern Rockies, which operates the center, said the organization will strive to stay positive.

A telephone call to the center went unanswered on Monday.