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Wendover Strip Club Southern Exposure were two officers were called initially for a man with a gun. (Archive picture)

 

Wendover Police in front of the Rainbow Casino in Wendover.
Wendover Police in front of the Rainbow Casino in Wendover.(High Desert Advocate staff picture)

This Thursday night, November 17th, around 8:30 p.m., officers were called to the Southern Exposure strip club, at the Wendover Plaza, about a man with a gun. The man flee before the two officers arrived.  The two Police cars attempted to stop him, and went in his pursuit on the Wendover Boulevard. The man crashed between the Red Garter Casino and The Rainbow Casino, on a guard rail. Then from the inside of his car he opened fire on the two officers, who returned fire and shot him multiple times. Two more officers arrived at the scene, but the shooting had stopped. No officer were down. The man was apprehended and was immediately transported by ambulance, then helicopter, to Intermountain hospital in Utah, and went into surgery in the early morning hours, for a gunshot wound to the chest and injuries to his leg.

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