A naked man armed with a gun caused chaos on a section of I-80 in Wyoming, ending with at least three people injured and the suspect under arrest, police said.

Armando Cano, 26, of Moroni, Utah, was arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of attacking several motorists on a desolate stretch of highway between Rawlins and Green River, according to a media release from the Wyoming Highway Patrol, which referred to the incident as a “bizarre series of events.”

Cano, who is being held at the Sweetwater County Detention Facility in Green River, faces multiple criminal charges including: attempted manslaughter; driving under the influence; reckless driving; resisting arrest; and promoting obscenity.

During the far-flung spree, shots were fired, vehicles were intentionally rammed, one person was cut with shattered glass and another was stabbed in the leg before authorities were able to subdue the agitated and mobile suspect.

Highway patrol dispatchers started getting calls about 9 p.m. Wednesday about a white car that had been “swerving all over the highway and had run off the road” about 33 miles west of Rawlins, the highway patrol said.

The driver of the car, later identified as Cano, got out of the car and ran across the highway several times in front of passing vehicles. Dispatchers then started fielding reports that the man was “standing out in the roadway and was wearing no clothes.”

Before troopers could arrive, a nude Cano got into a fight with a motorist who had stopped. He then jumped into his own car and started driving east on the highway.

About 17 miles away, Cano “intentionally” rammed a vehicle with a couple from Cheyenne in it. When both vehicles stopped, Cano, still naked, attempted to get into the couple’s vehicle. Meanwhile, a woman driving by who saw the crash stopped to help. Cano forced his way into her vehicle and “found a 9mm semi-automatic handgun in the female’s vehicle and began firing it from inside the vehicle out the closed windows,” the highway patrol said.

Cano fired one round, narrowly missing the female driver. He fired a second round out the side window of the vehicle, and allegedly fired at the vehicle he had rammed, police said. The woman fled her vehicle, from which he was firing shots, on foot.

The couple from Cheyenne, still in their rammed vehicle, tried to drive away from the chaotic scene, but Cano jumped back into his car and began chasing them. He caught up and rammed the couple’s vehicle once again, police said.

Still armed with the gun, Cano then drove his own car about three miles down the highway, stopped, got out and lay down naked in the road. At some the gun jammed.

He then got up and threw an unknown object at a passing vehicle, shattering the driver’s window. As a passerby tried to shepherd Cano off the highway, the suspect stabbed the passerby in the leg with an unknown sharp object. Several passing truck drivers and motorists stopped and Cano, now armed with a pipe, began breaking out windows of vehicles. A truck driver suffered cuts at this point, police said.

A trooper caught up with the rolling mayhem, attempted to take Cano into custody, and a struggle ensued. Truck drivers helped the trooper wrestle Cano, who stands 6-feet-tall and weighs 240 pounds, to the ground, and he was handcuffed.

A Sweetwater County Sheriff’s deputy and other law officers arrived a short time later.

The female driver who owns the handgun had difficulty breathing after the incident and was taken by ambulance to Memorial Hospital in Rawlins. Cano was also taken to the hospital to be treated for “minor” injuries.

Troopers found the handgun taken from the woman in Cano’s vehicle.

Toxicology results on Cano have not been completed.

Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.