Singer killed while singing in bar
Suspected shooter kills self before capture

By The Associated Press
LARAMIE - A military sharpshooter accused of killing his estranged wife as she sang at a bar died Tuesday night after being found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, police said.
David Munis was found by a search team shortly before 8 p.m. and was flown to Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie, where he was pronounced dead, said Cheyenne police Lt. Mark Munari.
He apparently shot himself as searchers closed in on him, Munari said.
Authorities had been looking for Munis, 36, in a canyon area north of Laramie near where his pickup was spotted late Monday. He was found in a trailer about 15 miles north of Laramie, near where police had been searching, Munari said.

Munis' estranged wife, Robin Munis, 40, was singing with a classic-rock and country group at the Old Chicago restaurant and bar early Saturday when a bullet pierced a plate glass door and hit her in the head, killing her.
Witnesses at the hospital where Munis was taken said they saw a body covered in a tarp being taken out of a helicopter.
"We were standing outside, and we saw a helicopter come in pretty fast and land," said Evan Maurer, who was helping to install networking and telephone lines at the emergency room. "About eight guys in fatigues, looked like National Guardsman or Army, jumped out with M-16s.
"They grabbed a body out of the copter and started carrying it," Maurer said.
Munis was charged with first-degree murder earlier Tuesday.
The Munises were recently separated. Robin Munis had contacted police just hours before the shooting to complain that her husband was making harassing calls to her cell phone.
Investigators said it was unclear whether the shot that killed her came from the restaurant parking lot, about 25 yards away, or from an open green space, roughly 100 yards off.
Witnesses told police that a pickup truck matching the one owned by David Munis was seen leaving the scene.
A handwritten note of about six pages, addressed to "Everyone," was found at Munis' home, police said Tuesday. "I'm calling it a near-confession," Cheyenne police Capt. Jeff Schulz said. "He does not come out and say, 'I did it.' "
The police spokesman would not give details.
Munis had been a member of the Wyoming Army National Guard since 2003, was previously in the Army and was a 2001 graduate of the Army Sniper School at Fort Benning, Ga., according to the National Guard.
Munis was assigned to an infantry regiment at Fort Campbell, Ky., according to Lt. Col. Kevin V. Arata, public-affairs officer with the U.S. Army Human Resources Command. Arata said he couldn't determine from Munis' military records if he was ever in combat.
Dozens of law enforcement officers, some armed with automatic weapons, took part in the search for Munis. The searchers were preparing for a long manhunt.
During the search, police assumed that Munis had at least one high-powered rifle with him, as well as a handgun and two canteens. Cartridges for a .257 Weatherby - a high-powered rifle - were found scattered inside and outside the truck. Also, police found a handgun case inside the truck.
Police loaded the black and silver Dodge Dakota with National Guard plates onto a flatbed tow truck and hauled it back to Cheyenne.
A tip around 8 p.m. Monday led deputies to the truck off Roger Canyon Road, about 10 miles northeast of Laramie. The paved, two-lane road meanders past several rural homes before turning to dirt and climbing into the Laramie Range.
The search began in a five-mile radius of where the pickup was found.
Munari said about 60 police, deputies and state agents were involved. They split into four-person teams and picked their way through sagebrush and scattered ponderosa pine. They were aided by two Black Hawk helicopters that were being used to search for Munis from the air and to move searchers.
The helicopters flew in low, tight loops near a staging area. At one point, four heavily armed Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers walked down from the hills and beyond a roadblock set up on the road.
The searchers had police dogs helping them.
Robin Munis' brother, Art Werner, declined to comment on his sister's death when reached Tuesday at their parents' home in Clarksville, Tenn.
He said her funeral service had not been set.