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FILE - In this March 15, 2019 file photo, law enforcement officers cover Montana State Trooper Wade Palmer's patrol car at the scene of the shooting near the Evaro Bar in Missoula, Mont. The wife of trooper Palmer, who is 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. (Tommy Martino/The Missoulian via AP, File)

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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.