Deputy Mason Moore, 42. A Broadwater County Sheriff's deputy with only three years on the job and a wife and three children at home was shot and killed early Tuesday 5-16-2017 while trying to make a traffic stop.

The shooting touched off a search that resulted in a pre-dawn chase covering more than 140 miles in southwestern Montana and ending in a shoot-out that sent one suspect to the hospital and his father to jail.

Deputy Moore, was slain near Three Forks, less than two miles from where a state Highway Patrol trooper was shot and killed in 2010.

"It's difficult to adequately describe how devastating it feels to lose one of our own in the line of duty," said Broadwater Sheriff Wynn Meehan. "Our deputy died protecting the citizens of our county and displayed remarkable courage until the very end."

“The men and women of the Butte-Silver Bow Law Enforcement Department extend our sincerest condolences to Sheriff Meehan, the Broadwater County Sheriff’s Department, and the family of the fallen deputy,'' Butte-Silver Bow County Sheriff Ed Lester said, echoing condolence messages that poured in Tuesday from law enforcement and elected officials across Montana.

Officers from numerous agencies joined a procession at mid-day Tuesday to transfer Moore's body from Three Forks to Billings for an autopsy. The body arrived in Billings in the afternoon, where firefighters raised a large American flag from a ladder truck.

Article Taken from Billings Gazette (Slain Montana deputy was father of three; one suspect hospitalized, one jailed)
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