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Trooper Palmer will be flown to Missoula and is anticipated to arrive at Northstar Jet at approximately 1:30pm. After he arrives in Montana, a motorcade will escort him to his home.
On a night that will be remembered for a steady rain that fell during the ceremony, the 19th annual Law Enforcement Memorial commemoration took place at Rose Memorial Park.
For the first time, Lindsey Palmer, the wife of critically wounded Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Wade Palmer has released a statement from the University Of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City.
19 year-old Micah Nicholas was in the Missoula County Jail until Monday afternoon charged with felony vehicular homicide while under the influence after allegedly driving drunk and causing the death of 48 year-old Michael Haley.
The Montana Highway Patrol has released another update on the condition of severely wounded Trooper Wade Palmer, currently being treated at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City.
Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Wade Palmer, who was shot multiple times and critically wounded by a suspect on March 15, has regained consciousness in the University Of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, and his condition has been upgraded to stable.
One man is confirmed dead and another man was injured and transported to St. Patrick Hospital after a vehicle was traveling the wrong way on Interstate 90 on Wednesday afternoon.
Attorney General Tim Fox, head of the Montana Highway Patrol, spoke with KGVO News for the first time since Trooper Wade Palmer was critically wounded last Thursday night.