State inmate involved in 2021 shooting sues Lincoln County
Tristan Kirk Assance. (Paul Sievers/The Western News)
A 2021 shooting involving a Lincoln County man and officers from the county Sheriff’s Office was deemed justifiable, but a recently filed federal civil rights lawsuit calls into question the actions of those officers, as well as alleged policy and procedural violations and the ensuing investigation.
Tristan Kirk Assance, 35, filed the suit against the county on Jan. 11 in federal court in Missoula. The Whitefish firm of Gersh, Simpson and Joos and the Missoula firm of Siefert and Wagner, is representing Assance, who remains in the Crossroads Correctional Center in Shelby.
Judge Donald W. Molloy is handling the case.
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