Personnel from the Missoula Division of the Montana Highway Patrol are in Salt Lake City, Utah to provide support for wounded trooper Wade Palmer and his family.
Bail was set at $2 million for Jonathan Bertsch yesterday, the man accused in a shooting spree that killed one man and critically wounded three others, including MHP Trooper Wade Palmer
On Monday’s Talk Back radio talk show, Colonel Tom Butler, Commander of the Montana Highway Patrol shared news about the condition of Trooper Wade Palmer who was critically wounded by gunfire Thursday night near Evaro.
29 year-old Jonathan Bertsch is in the Missoula County Jail charged with one count of deliberate homicide and three counts of attempted deliberate homicide after a shooting spree late Thursday night that began in Missoula and ended near Evaro.
The Montana Highway Patrol Trooper who was critically injured Thursday night near Evaro, Wade Palmer, was honored in 2015 along with then cadet T.J. Templeton with the Medal of Valor after his heroic rescue of a woman and her family on I-90 in 2014.
During the summer of 2018, troopers with the Montana Highway Patrol conducted a public opinion survey to let the agency know how it is perceived by residents and visitors traveling through the state,