After a coroner’s inquest looking into the shooting death of a 21-year-old man following a high-speed police chase, a jury found on April 29 he had taken his own life.
At a coroner’s inquest Friday morning in Missoula, a jury confirmed a young Native American man died by suicide last summer during a chase with Missoula police.
Johnny Lee Perry, who was 31, died after Missoula County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Evans fired lethal shots at him last August. Perry died from a gunshot wound to the back.