Albany County Judge Sentences Former Juvenile in Fatal 2023 Barbershop Shooting

Nearly three years after a shooting inside a Laramie barbershop left one man dead and two others wounded, an Albany County Court judge sentenced the gunman on Thursday, closing a case that began when the defendant was only 15 years old.

The March 20, 2026 sentencing marks the formal resolution of a 2023 incident that shook the city. Because the defendant was a juvenile at the time of the shooting, his name was not published. The specific sentence imposed, the charges, and the presiding judge's identity were not immediately available from court records.

The 2023 shooting inside the city barbershop resulted in one fatality and left two other men injured. Few additional details about the circumstances of the attack, including any motive or whether co-defendants were charged, have been confirmed from available court documents.

Wyoming law governing juvenile proceedings places significant restrictions on the public release of case records, and it remains unclear whether any portion of the docket has been unsealed following the sentencing. The Albany County Court clerk's office and the Albany County District Attorney's office had not yet provided confirmation of the sentence length or the specific counts at the time of publication.

The case drew attention in part because of the defendant's age: 15 at the time of the shooting, he was tried or adjudicated in a process that ultimately concluded in adult Albany County Court. The precise procedural path, including whether he faced juvenile delinquency proceedings before transfer or was charged directly as an adult, has not been confirmed from available records.