Posted on 08/02/2025 1:42:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Police have found the getaway car of a US military veteran who walked into a bar in the western state of Montana on Friday morning and fatally shot four people, but the gunman remains at large.
The shooting happened at The Owl Bar in the city of Anaconda at around 10:30 local time, the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation said. The bar owner told AP news agency he thinks the suspect just "snapped".
Police said they have found the white Ford-150 pick-up truck that the suspect used to flee the scene, but no sign of the gunman.
Authorities are now focusing their search in a mountainous area west of Anaconda, and have asked residents in the area to stay home and lock their doors.
The Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Law Enforcement Center named the suspect as Michael Paul Brown in a social media post, adding he is "believed to be armed and dangerous".
According to public records, he lived next door to the bar.
The owner of The Owl Bar, David Gwerder, who was not there at the time of the shooting, told the Associated Press: "He knew everybody that was in that bar.
"I guarantee you that. He didn't have any running dispute with any of them. I just think he snapped."
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An Army vet that “just snapped”? With this bring in the PTSD ref flag people? I hope not.
There’s bound to be a motive and the cops will likely figure it out.
A guy who wasn’t even their is a source of information? Ohhhkayyy.
Sometimes I think I’m the only person who doesn’t have PTSD. Which I feel like is giving me PTSD.
“Just snapped.”
It’s the mustache!
“According to public records, he lived next door to the bar.
“He just snapped”
Maybe they played Achy Breaky Heart one too many times on the jukebox.
Yup! There’s your first clue.
I wonder what kind of meds this guy was given.
I know, for a time, the V.A. was good for giving you a handful of meds and shuffling you out the door!
I am tired of ptsd as an excuse for veterens...WW2 vets came home from war and went to school or work and started families..no time to wallow in self pity and they had just as much if not more horrific situations as present day vets.
Their commander in chief wasn’t Clinton, Bush, or Obama.
Maybe the best outcome at this point is if they find him dead by a self-inflicted gunshot, before he kills anyone else.
MANY, MANY OF THOSE WW II VETS CAME HOME & MARRIED THE WIDOWS OD THEIR TRENCH BUDDIES .
If PTSD is not a factor why all the suicides every month or are those just made-up statistics?
Amy Vet?
Bar?
What could go wrong with that combo...
Sheesh....
SMH.
Granted, it was a small Montana town but I work in a sports bar in a smallish Northern Commiefornia town and I know most of our customers but I wouldn't go so far as to say that everybody knows everybody else.
Many were alcoholics and beat their wives. They were not angels. They just were untreated.
“I know, for a time, the V.A. was good for giving you a handful of meds and shuffling you out the door!”
I know on vet who is on a drug for depression. But he still says he’s depressed. Doesn’t seem to experience the next obvious thought about that.
And they did raise us baby boomers and look at us
Yeah. The generation that brought drugs, sex, abortion, divorce into the mainstream. You are quite the generation. lol.
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