Four killed in Montana bar shooting that is US’s ninth mass murder of 2025 | Montana
On Friday, four people were killed in a Montana bar, and the authorities began to lock in a neighborhood a few miles away, while the authorities were looking for a forested area for a suspect.
The shooting has brought the number of massacres to nine in the United States this year. Arms Violence ArchiveIt is a non -partisan resource that defines such cases as murders where four or more victims were killed.
All these mass murders were thrown, and four of them occurred in a 30 -day period of July 2. It was the second mass murder of the United States since Monday, when a man hosted the headquarters of the National Football League and shot four people before he died of suicide.
According to the Penal Investigation Department of the state, the mass murder in Montana on Friday took place at 10.30 at the OWL Bar in Anaconda. The agency, who pioneered the investigation into the shooting, confirmed that four people were killed at the scene.
According to public records, 45 -year -old Michael Paul Brown, described as the suspect, experienced Nextddoor. Authorities said that a tactical team had cleaned Brown’s house and was last seen in the Stump Town area just west of Anaconda.
More than a dozen from the local and state police united in that area and locked it, so that no one was allowed or out. A helicopter wandered over a nearby mountain, the officers moved between the trees, Randy Clark, a retired police officer living there, told Associated Press.
Montana Highway Patrol said in a statement, Brown was believed to be armed.
While the reports of the shots spread to the town, the business owners locked their doors and were protected inside with customers. In a nursery, a few blocks away from the shooting scene in children’s care of butterflies, the owner Sage Huot said that someone kept children all day after being called to give information about violence.
Huot said, “We make constant drills, fire drills and active shooting drills, so we locked the facility, locked the doors, and we have a quiet point where we play activities away from all our windows and doors,” he said.
Anaconda, Missoula’s approximately 75 miles (120km) is southeast. A town of approximately 9,000 in a valley hugged by the mountains, founded by copper barons benefiting from nearby mines in the late 1800s.
It appears an invalid pile of izabes on the valley.
The owner of Firefly Cafe in Anaconda said that he locked his job at 11:00 on Friday after being warned by a friend of mine.
“We are Montana, so the weapons are not new to us, Bar “Everyone was quite shaken to lock our town.”
