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July 18, 2007

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Wyo. sniper suspect shoots self

By Ben Nearyand Mead Gruver
The Associated Press
Related: Wyo. authorities hunt for sharpshooter who murdered wife

Police feared manhunt with 'Rambo'-like risks

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — David Munis was trained by the Army in how to live off the land, how to move stealthily in the wilderness, how to throw pursuers off his trail — and how to squeeze off a shot from a concealed position and hit a target the size of a postage stamp at 100 yards.

Law officers feared those skills could make it extremely difficult — and dangerous — to hunt him down in mountainous terrain Tuesday. But the military sharpshooter accused of killing his estranged wife as she sang at a bar was found Tuesday night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest and taken to a hospital, police said.

Munis, a Wyoming Army National Guard member, was found by a search team and flown to Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie, said Cheyenne police Capt. Jeff Schulz.

Authorities had been searching for Munis, 36, in a canyon area north of Laramie near where his pickup was spotted late Monday. An empty handgun case had been found inside the truck.

Munis' estranged wife, Robin Munis, 40, was singing with a classic-rock and country group at the Old Chicago restaurant and bar early Saturday when a bullet pierced a plate glass door and hit her in the head, killing her. The woman, who held down a day job as a policy analyst with the state's mental retardation agency, was singing the Toby Keith song, "I Love This Bar."

Investigators said the bullet was fired from outside, but it was unclear whether it came from the parking lot, some 25 yards away, or from an open green space 100 yards off.

Witnesses told police that a pickup matching the one owned by David Munis was seen leaving the scene.

The Munises were recently separated and she had contacted police just hours before the shooting to complain that he was making harassing calls to her cell phone.

In a "Rambo"-like drama, some 60 officers backed up by two helicopters searched the woods, mountains and canyons in the southeastern part of the state for Munis, a 2001 graduate of the Army Sniper School at Fort Benning, Ga.

A handwritten note of about six pages, addressed to "Everyone," was found at Munis' home, police said Tuesday. "I'm calling it a near-confession," Schulz said. "He does not come out and say, 'I did it.'"

Amid the search for Munis, John Plaster, a retired Army major, sniper instructor and author of "The Ultimate Sniper," said from his office in Wisconsin that a highly trained soldier who snapped and killed a spouse would be likely to commit suicide.

"All the honor of being a soldier, of being devoted to country, and so on, that's gone," Plaster said.

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