RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) - A Wyoming man accused of opening fire at an alcohol detoxification center, killing one man and wounding another, is a parks employee who said he targeted the facility because he was tired of cleaning up after the homeless population, police said Monday.
Roy Clyde, 32 of Riverton, made the statement after he was arrested in Saturday's shooting at the Center of Hope facility, said Riverton police Capt. Eric Murphy.
Murphy said police received a call at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday from a man who said he had shot two people at the center. Responding officers arrested Clyde outside the center and jailed him on a charge of first-degree murder, Murphy said.
Clyde took off his shirt before officers arrived, apparently to make sure police knew he was unarmed, Murphy said.
He said Clyde is a 13-year employee of Riverton, a central Wyoming city of roughly 11,000 people.
A clerk at circuit court in Riverton said no lawyer had filed to represent Clyde yet.
An attempt to reach Fremont County Attorney Patrick J. LeBrun, whose office prosecutes criminal offenses in Riverton, was not immediately successful.
Murphy said Clyde told investigators that homeless people were using city parks as a sewer. "And basically he was angry at that, and that's what precipitated him to go and do this violent act," Murphy said.
"It was strictly homeless people," he said. "He was angry about the homeless population."
Murphy said there has been public concern about the homeless situation in Riverton.