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U.S. NEWS Saturday 16 March 2019
Montana trooper's shooting

leads to overnight manhunt

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A tion. Dozens of patrol cars soula, where two men and
Montana Highway Patrol crowded the hospital's a woman sitting in a car
trooper who was investi- parking lot as officers from were wounded late Thurs-
gating an earlier shooting various law enforcement day, said Missoula County
was himself shot and criti- agencies gathered to pay Chief Deputy Attorney Ja-
cally injured early Friday their respects, and they lat- son Marks.
after finding the suspect's er a motorcade accompa- No other suspects were be-
vehicle, leading authori- nied Palmer to the airport ing sought in the shootings.
ties to launch an overnight to be transferred to a Salt Charges were expected
manhunt that ended in the Lake City hospital for treat- to be filed against Bertsch
arrest of a 29-year-old man, ment. Friday afternoon, and he Law enforcement cover Montana State Trooper Wade Palmer's
officials said. Police shut down that was expected to make an car at the scene of the shooting near the Evaro Bar on Friday,
Another trooper found stretch of U.S. Highway 93, initial court appearance on March 15, 2019, in Missoula, Mont.
Wade Palmer, 35, wound- warned residents to lock Monday, Marks said. There Associated Press
ed and still buckled into their doors and then spent was no immediate infor-
his patrol car near a bar in hours searching before mation on whether he has the Missoulian newspaper. the Medal of Valor, in 2015.
the small town of Evaro, a they arrested Johnathan a lawyer to speak on his Their conditions weren't im- Bertsch was previously ar-
statement from Montana Bertsch at about 6:15 a.m. behalf. The three people mediately clear. rested in 2009 for allegedly
Highway Patrol officials Bertsch was being held as from the first shooting out- Palmer has been a trooper stealing gas, then leading
said. The shooter had fled. a suspect in both Palmer's side a car dealership were since 2012. He has a wife officers on a chase and
Palmer was taken to a Mis- shooting and the earlier taken to a hospital for gun- and two children, and he ramming his car into a
soula hospital, where he shooting about 10 miles shot wounds, Missoula po- won the law enforcement patrol car, the Missoulian
was listed in critical condi- (16 kilometers) away in Mis- lice Sgt. Travis Welsh told agency's highest honor, reported.q

In this June 6, 2016 file photo, people on a wharf watch as the
Mayflower II, the 1957 replica of the famed ship that carried the
Pilgrims to Massachusetts in 1620, arrives in Plymouth Harbor in
Plymouth, Mass.
Associated Press
Tribe, 3 countries plan

400th Pilgrim anniversary

in 2020

BOSTON (AP) — Native Historical Genealogical
American leaders are Society to firm up plans for
teaming up with groups yearlong remembrances
in the U.S., Britain and the of the Mayflower's voyage
Netherlands to ensure next — and the disease, rac-
year's commemoration of ism and oppression native
the 400th anniversary of people suffered after the
the Pilgrim landing show- European settlers arrived.
cases the harsh legacy of Wampanoag activist Paula
colonization. Peters, who has been insist-
Events are planned in all ing on an unvarnished look
three countries in 2020 to back, said Friday the tribal
reflect on the Pilgrims' ar- perspective is getting "a lot
rival in 1620 in what is now of support."
Massachusetts. Past commemorations
Organizers gathered Thurs- have glossed over the
day at the New England suffering.q