Steve Crerar was a 62-year-old Fremont County sheriff’s lieutenant who was killed on April 30, 1995, during what began as a routine transport. He was driving a teenage prisoner back to the Wyoming Boys’ School in Worland after the youth had run away and been arrested. Accounts say the juvenile managed to free one of his hands from a handcuff, take Crerar’s service weapon, and shoot him in the head.

Sides was apprehended after the shooting, later pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder, and was given life sentences. Subsequent litigation over juvenile life-without-parole rules led to adjustments in how those sentences were ordered, but the conviction and the finding that Crerar was killed during the transport remain intact.

This case is notable for how a routine custody task ended in deadly violence; memorial pages and retrospectives emphasize the contrast between an ordinary duty and its fatal outcome. If anyone knew Lieutenant Crerar, the transport, or the events on that road in late April 1995, please share what you remember.