A manhunt in the US state of Montana continued into its second day today, as federal and local law enforcement searched by land and air for the man they believe shot and killed four people at a small town bar before driving away in a pickup truck.
The Montana Department of Justice said a bartender and three patrons at the Owl Bar in Anaconda, in rural southwestern Montana, were killed on Friday morning.
The suspect, who local authorities believe to be armed and dangerous, has been identified as 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown.
Officials say that Brown lives right next door to the Owl Bar.
Major Travis Shaw, a service spokesman, says Brown served in the US Army as an armour crewman from January 2001 to May 2005.
Shaw says Brown was deployed to Iraq from February 2004 to March 2005 and served in the Montana National Guard from April 2006 to April 2009, leaving the service with the rank of sergeant.
A spokesperson for Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said that multiple local, state, and federal agencies are involved in the search, which is still focused on the mountainous area off Stumptown Road, several miles west of the shooting.
Source : The Washington Post
