Mark Wood, Chief Deputy for the U.S. Marshals Service in Wyoming, said Tuesday he could not comment further on the case because it remains under investigation.

The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation is looking into the shooting, said Frosty Williams, its deputy director of operations. Williams on Tuesday referred all questions to the Converse County Attorney’s Office. When reached by phone, county attorney Quentin Richardson said he could not talk about the ongoing case.

The Converse County Sheriff’s Office released its own statement last week about the shooting, but it did not provide information about whether Ramirez was armed when he was shot and killed.

Wood said it could take five to seven weeks for DCI agents to conduct interviews and for forensic evidence to be assessed at the state crime lab. The case will then be turned over to the county attorney’s office for review.

The Marshals Service said it would not be releasing the names of the deputy marshals involved in the shooting until the investigation into the incident is concluded, as a matter of the agency’s policies.

Sheriff deputies and Douglas Police Department officers responded to the church at 2:43 p.m. Thursday and found Ramirez lying unconscious on the ground, the sheriff’s office said.

Emergency personnel took him to Memorial Hospital of Converse County, where he later died.

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