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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Friday, September 20th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by ServeWyoming - Wyoming's center for volunteerism and AmeriCorps service for the last 30 years! For volunteer opportunities, visit ServeWyoming dot org"

Yellowstone National Park released body camera footage from three National Park Service law enforcement rangers Thursday, showing the July 4 shootout with a concessionaire worker that left one ranger wounded and the worker dead.

28 year old Xanterra concessionaire worker Samson Lucas Fussner was killed by rangers after holding another Xanterra worker against her will for several hours in Yellowstone's Canyon Village tourist and lodging area. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that the Park Service released a 911 audio recording, along with its body camera footage, on Thursday.

"We don't actually see Lucas Fussner shooting at any officers. None of them had their body cameras on for that portion… a couple of them started after the initial shooting, but kind of during the officer response. So we actually see one of the officers firing his weapon just after. We see a figure that NPS says, or that Yellowstone says, is Fussner appear in an open garage door."

The Park Service's Office of Professional Responsibility is conducting an administrative investigation, while the FBI leads the incident investigation.

Read the full story HERE.

On Wednesday, a large crowd of people turned out to speak about the suspension of a Cheyenne pharmacy's license, but weren't allowed to comment.

Cowboy State Daily's Leo Wolfson reports that the denial of any public input resulted in yelling and screaming and law enforcement physically removing one of the supporters of City Drug, Sally Whelan, when she got up to speak in support of the business.

"At a certain point, it appears, Whelan snapped and lost her temper and told the trooper multiple times, don't touch me. Get your hands off me. Some shouting and yelling and screeching ensued with Whelan requesting that she be allowed to go get her belongings in the room. She was not allowed to do so, and continued yelling at the troopers before she finally left the room. I spoke to one person who was there in the meeting, and she found that the whole thing was a little distasteful, as far as kind of the way everything went down."

City Drug is one of only two independent pharmacies in Cheyenne and has contracts with four of the five hospices in the city. The City Drug suspension is not a final order, and the business will still have a right to a contested case hearing.

Read the full story HERE.

Whenever there's reports of people shooting grizzlies with handguns in self-defense, a common question, is what guns did they use?

Outdoor reporter Mark Heinz has received numerous emails and messages asking that question, after recent stories about archery hunters in Montana and Idaho shooting grizzlies in self-defense.

"Some hunters that I have talked to that, you know, pack handguns for self defense in the backcountry… The 10 millimeter auto seems to be a very popular caliber that's even growing in popularity, that that's a very popular cartridge for people to have handguns in. Also, you know, the the old school, the old standby is the .44 Magnum, .357 Magnum… or a few years now, they've had the .500 Smith and Wesson, which I've never shot