A 44-year-old Colorado man was fatally shot Thursday afternoon in Wyoming by federal agents trying to arrest him.
Jasen Scott Ramirez was killed as U.S. Marshals were serving a federal arrest warrant in the town of Douglas, according to the Converse County Sheriff’s Office in Wyoming.
Ramirez, who was shot on the 300 block of South 5th Street, was rushed to the Converse County Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Converse County Undersheriff Justin Scott told The Denver Post that the shooting happened in a church parking lot as a funeral for Ramirez’s father was letting out. Scott said he did not know where specifically in Colorado that Ramirez was from.
The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation and the Wyoming Crime Lab were called to the scene to investigate, according to the sherrif’s office.
The Associated Press reports Ramirez was indicted in U.S. District Court in Wyoming last month on charges of illegal drug possession, possession of a firearm while drug trafficking and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Investigators have not said what prompted the shooting.
Douglas is about 125 miles northwest of Cheyenne on Interstate 25.
A Wyoming state trooper was injured heading to the crash, but is expected to be OK, Scott said.
