Police find getaway car of army veteran suspected of deadly Montana bar shooting

BBC ^ | 07/02/2025 | Nadine Yousif

[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."

[Round Earther]

I would run out of the studio.

Back in college radio, I once avoided talking by playing a full set of bands with names too offensive to say on air.

[Freedom4US]

10:30 AM? Ya gotta start early in the morning if you’re gonna drink all day

[Bikkuri]

It had a different name back then. It was known as “Shell Shock”.

[GenXPolymath]

There is another post on this guy. He was also a bipolar, schizophrenic who was delusional at times. He was known and of course on “their radar”. Looks like he snapped while in a manic episode or even a full delusional state.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Yes that is pretty bad too 👎