Mark Lamonte Mont Mecham, a 67-year-old retired Green River, Wyoming police lieutenant, died on April 3, 2017. His death was tied by colleagues and memorials to injuries he had carried since October 14, 1996, when officers went to question Steven Mitchell about the murder of 31-year-old Tawnya T Sidwell. During that contact, shotgun fire came from inside Mitchell’s home. Mecham was struck by a blast that tore into the left side of his head, face, neck, and chest; Sgt. Dave Hyer was shot in the arm.

Mitchell barricaded himself and surrendered after a hourslong standoff involving tear gas. He was charged, convicted of first-degree murder in Sidwell’s death and of two counts of attempted first-degree murder for the shootings of Mecham and Hyer, and received life sentences that were upheld on appeal. Mecham survived the 1996 attack but carried its effects for the rest of his life; his 2017 passing was described by peers as the final chapter of those wounds.

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