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REMOVES REFERENCE TO BOOKING PHOTO - This undated photo provided by the Montana Highway Patrol shows Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Wade Palmer. Authorities say Palmer was in critical condition after being shot while investigating an earlier shooting in Missoula. Highway Patrol officials said in a statement Friday, March 15, 2019, another trooper found the wounded 35-year-old Palmer in his patrol car outside a bar in Evaro, Mont. The wife of trooper Palmer, who is now recovering from a traumatic brain injury after being shot three times, is thanking the medical team who gave them "the fighting chance we needed to get through this." Lindsey Palmer made her emotional comments Wednesday, May 22, 2019, at the University of Utah Health in Salt Lake City shortly before her husband was to be released from the hospital and flown back home. (Montana Highway Patrol via AP, File)

REMOVES REFERENCE TO BOOKING PHOTO - This undated photo provided by the Montana Highway Patrol shows Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Wade Palmer. Authorities say Palmer was in critical condition after being shot while investigating an earlier shooting in Missoula. Highway Patrol officials said in a statement Friday, March 15, 2019, another trooper found the wounded 35-year-old Palmer in his patrol car outside a bar in Evaro, Mont. The wife of trooper Palmer, who is now recove…

May 22, 2019

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Wife thanks doctors as trooper goes home after shooting
May 22, 2019 5:42 p.m.

Wife thanks doctors as trooper goes home after shooting

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana Highway Patrol trooper who suffered a traumatic brain injury after being shot three times was released Wednesday from a Utah hospital after his wife gave emotional thanks to the medical team and supporters.