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(This story is reprinted with the permission of Lee Newspapers.) HELENA — A young man shot and killed himself after a 21-hour standoff with Havre police three weeks ago, and it got barely a notice in the statewide press. Yet this young man — Robert Thomas, a former prison inmate who had “absconded” during his parole — wasn’t just any young man. He was the central figure in a twisting and often tragic saga that began 12 years ago in the Missoula Juvenile Detention Facility, when Thomas and several other juvenile inmates acc...