Paul Clyde Browning, a 67-year-old White man from Bargerville, was shot and killed on the afternoon of July 11, 2025, during the Green River Rendezvous in Pinedale, Wyoming. Emergency crews found him in a public alley between Tyler and Maybell avenues, just off Pine Street, with a single gunshot wound to the chest. The Sublette County Coroner ruled the death a homicide; an autopsy concluded the fatal shot came from a handgun fired at close range, about two to three feet away, and Browning had no other injuries.

The alley, located between a physical therapy clinic and a Mexican restaurant, was cordoned off and investigators detained one person described as the shooter soon after, then released that individual. Authorities have said self-defense is being considered and have questioned the person who fired the weapon. By September Browning’s family was still seeking answers. In early October county commissioners approved a special prosecutor for an outside review of the case, and no arrests have been announced.

If anyone was in the Green River Rendezvous area near Pine Street on July 11 and saw something that could help investigators, please come forward.