More than 1,200 people, including Gov. Roy Romer, pay tribute to slain Cortez police officer Dale Claxton at a funeral held on the Cortez High School football field. Mason shoots himself with a pistol in a shallow bunker along the San Juan River east of Bluff as searchers close in. National Guard troops from Colorado and Utah join a force totaling 500 men as the search for the surviving suspects widens. Authorities are unable to locate the raft. Utah state highway workers discover a bag containing a crossbow and corroded ammunition near a highway.
Investigators determine the bag had been buried for several years.
SWAT teams locate tracks leading between the San Juan River and the truck. Equipment and jurisdictional problems prevent the fires from clearing a significant amount of brush. SWAT teams attempt to establish a perimeter around the two men, but the thick brush prevents them from capturing the two fugitives. Navajo SWAT teams discover tracks in the area of the sighting, but eventually lose the tracks. Butler says a plaster cast indicates that the tracks are identical to those found near the abandoned truck in Cross Canyon.