Manhunt underway in Moab, Utah

This is somewhat random....but this story struck me.

There is a manhunt underway in Moab, Utah for a man that shot a park ranger.
SWAT teams from two nearby counties, FBI, local sheriffs, are all involved in the hunt....although it is called off until morning.


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[link to moabtimes.com]

Utah State Parks ranger Cody Young was shot three times and critically wounded at about 8:40 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 19 while patrolling the Poison Spider trailhead west of Moab. On Saturday morning, officers with several county, state and federal agencies as well as the Emery and Carbon County SWAT teams combed a rugged canyon about 20 miles west of town for the suspect, who they believe fled into the canyon on foot, according to a news release from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office.

Nyland said a man confronted state park ranger Brody Young in the Poison Spider parking lot on Friday night shortly after Young pulled over the suspect's vehicle in the parking lot. Gunfire was exchanged and the ranger was struck in the leg, arm and stomach area.

“The park ranger was able to call in on the radio and advised that he was shot,” the sheriff’s office said in the news release.

Read more: Moab Times-Independent - BREAKING NEWS Police may be closing in on man who critically wounded state park ranger


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Utah ranger recovering

By Charles Ashby
Saturday, November 20, 2010

A Utah park ranger was in critical, but stable condition today after he was shot at least four times late Friday by an unknown assailant west of Moab.
[link to www.gjsentinel.com]