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A Dollar Tree Cashier Pepper sprays customer, Glenrock residents don't get answers on Flock cameras, and a Missing Missouri man found at Gannet Peak.

It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Thursday, August 27th. I'm Mac Watson.

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Rihanna Kelver, an outspoken transgender activist, asked a court Wednesday to drop the aggravated assault charge Kelver faces for pointing a gun at a man who'd shoved the activist to the ground outside of a Laramie bar. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that the 28-year old's case has drawn national attention, including the New York Times.

"Today inside this courthouse, Rihanna Kelver, who's one of Wyoming's most outspoken transgender activists, went to court to say that the aggravated assault charge, 10-year felony that Kelver faces on reports that Kelver racked and pointed a gun at a man who had just shoved Kelver to the ground. Kelver is saying that that was self-defense. Albany County District Court Judge Misha Westby is going to take the case under advisement. She said she would have been ordered soon, determining whether Kelver acted in self-defense. Now, if this was self-defense, the case will be dismissed, and Kelver won't have the aggravated assault charge. If it wasn't self-defense, according to the judge, Kelver can still try to assert the self-defense argument in front of a jury at a later trial."

Kelver faces the felony-level charge of aggravated assault in Albany County District Court. The charge is punishable by 10 years in prison, and describes threatening another person with a deadly weapon.

Read the full story HERE.

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Missing Missouri hiker Shaun Mackelprang was found dehydrated and disoriented Wednesday, five days after summiting Gannett Peak and three days after he was reported missing. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports that the signed registry atop Wyoming's tallest peak helped searchers find him.

"Missouri Deputy Attorney Sean MacAlprang set out into the Wind River Range on August 20th, and he had not been seen or heard from for six days until on Wednesday morning, Tip Top Search and Rescue was able to locate him at a remote lake. He was disoriented and dehydrated, but they were able to get him into a helicopter and take him to a local hospital. Mackelprang's older brother Romel, who lives in Salt Lake City, said that they had been in contact before he set out to reach Gannett Peak. He said his brother was on this quest to make it to the highest peak in every state, and Wyoming was number 45 on his list. When he didn't hear from him for a few days, he wasn't overly concerned. But by Tuesday, he was beginning to wonder what had happened."

Romel tells Cowboy State Daily that a hiker who summited later photographed the register at the top of Gannett Peak. Mackelprang's name was there. Once rescuers knew Mackelprang had reached the summit and knew where his tent was, Romel says, they could concentrate on the country between the two rather than searching without knowing which direction he traveled.

Read the full story HERE.

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11-year-old Neeka Korn is on a ventilator and dialysis in a Salt Lake City hospital after she was pinned under her grandparents' RV on Teton Pass on Aug. 17. Cowboy State Daily's Dale Killingbeck reports that a family friend says she is in critical condition and faces a long recovery but is responsive.

"Even though she's conscious now, she can communicate with a whiteboard and sign langua