LANDER, Wyo. (AP) – A Wyoming man has pleaded guilty in the shootings of two American Indian men in a case that exposed racial tensions in a reservation border town.
Thirty-two-year-old Roy Clyde pleaded guilty Thursday. He faces life in prison under a plea agreement that spares him the death penalty.
Clyde is a former parks worker for the city of Riverton, on the border of the Wind River Indian Reservation.
Clyde said he shot and killed 29-year-old Stallone Trosper and critically wounded 50-year-old James “Sonny” Goggles at a Riverton detox center in July.
Trosper and Goggles are members of the Northern Arapaho Tribe.