WHITEHALL – A 33-year-old man is in jail in connection with the shooting and wounding of another man in Whitehall late Tuesday evening.
Daniel Adams of Butte faces a felony charge of attempted deliberate homicide in the shooting of a 33-year-old Whitehall man after an altercation about 10:55 p.m., according to Jefferson County Sheriff Craig Doolittle. The victim is being treated at St. James Health Care in Butte for a single gunshot wound from a small caliber handgun.
Doolittle said the shooting occurred near an alley just outside a residence on the south end of town. The circumstances surrounding the shooting remain under investigation Wednesday.
Adams remains jailed in Jefferson County on $100,000 bond.