Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Coroner rules Gannon death suicide

Death likely occurred shortly after disappearance

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By TERRY SMITH
Express Staff Writer

The Blaine County Coroner has determined that 21-year-old Dexter Gannon likely died shortly after his disappearance during the early morning of New Year's Eve and killed himself with a gunshot wound to the head.

"We're saying that he died between 2 and 3 a.m.—that's an estimate—on Friday, Dec. 31," Coroner Russell Mikel said. "We're still waiting for some lab work, but it appears his only injury is a self-inflicted gunshot wound."

Gannon's body was found on the afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 4, on a steep, snow-covered hillside about a half mile southeast of the intersection of Keystone and Defiance roads in the Elkhorn foothills. He had been missing since early Dec. 31 after he walked away from a home where he was staying on Morning Star Road in Elkhorn. The home is about a mile from where his body was found.

Sun Valley police have reported that no one saw Gannon leave the home, but that it was sometime between midnight and 7 a.m. Police further reported that Gannon took a .45-caliber handgun that he obtained at the home and that the weapon was found near his body.

Police Chief Cameron Daggett said police received a report on the day Gannon's body was found from an Elkhorn homeowner who said he heard what sounded like a gunshot at about 3 a.m. on Dec. 31.

Terry Smith: tsmith@mtexpress.com

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