Police identify Wess Roley, 20, as suspect in Idaho firefighter ambush

According to BBC’s US partner CBS News, police resources described 20 -year -old Wess Rolley as a suspect in a sniper attack on firefighters in Idaho.

When they arrived at a fire in Canfield Mountain, just north of Coeur d’Ene, a armed man was shot and two firefighters were killed and a third third was injured.

Authorities believe that Roley deliberately burned the fire for the first interventionists to the region.

A police tactical team later “found a man who died” – believed to be a shooter – close to where the attack took place. The authorities have not yet commented on a reason, or they have not explained how Roley died.

In 2023, Roley moved from Arizona to Idaho and his mother is a social media mission to work for his father’s tree lopping company.

In an update shared in October 2024, his mother wrote that he had made a big life in Idaho.

The police believe that Rolley is responsible for the fire. “This is a complete ambush. This firefighters had no chance,” Sheriff Bob Norris told a new conference. He said.

“We lost a coeur d’Ene firefighter and lost an firefighter from Kootenai District Fire and Rescue.”

The third said, “Fighting for his life, but in a stable situation.”

Norris said the first report of a fire in the mountain community was around 13:21 PST (21:21 BST).

Norris said he had reached 20 acres after the fire was first notified and continued to burn until Sunday night.

City, district, state and federal officials, two helicopters on board, including two helicopters, including more than 300 law enforcement force.

Norris said that the suspect used a high -powerful sports rifle to quickly shoot in the first intervention teams and that the officers were not sure of the number of perpetrators at the beginning.

After one hour of gunfire, the suspect was found using suspicious mobile phone data.

Norris was unclear whether he had taken his own life or was shot by an officer.