Randy Weaver dead at 74: Survivalist famed for 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff with FBI passes away

The Sun ^ | 5/12/2022 | G. P. Rodriguez

[TexasGurl24]

RANDY Weaver, the survivalist known for his role in the Ruby Ridge standoff with the FBI, has died at the age of 74.

His daughter Sara confirmed the news on Facebook on Thursday.

Weaver's wife Vicki and 14-year-old son Samuel were killed by an FBI sniper during an 11-day standoff in the mountains of Idaho in 1992.

The standoff began when the US Marshall Service tried to arrest Weaver for failing to appear on a firearms charge.

Weaver had chosen not to surrender and remained inside his cabin on Ruby Ridge for a year and a half with his family.

When Marshalls showed up at the property, a shootout took place when Weaver, his son Samuel, and a friend Kevin Harris came out to check out the situation.

Samuel was shot by Marshalls, and Harris then shot dead Deputy U.S. Marshal William Francis Degan.

The following day, Weaver's wife, Vicki, was shot in the head by an FBI sniper while she held their 10-month-old daughter in her arms.

Weaver turned himself in 11 days later and was charged with killing Degan, but a jury acquitted him.

He ultimately served 16 months in jail for the original gun charge but following the horror that shook Ruby Ridge, where the family lived, stayed with Weaver until his dying day.

[Eagles6]

RIP, Randy.
This happened on GHW Bush’s watch.

[Georgia Girl 2]

When the FBI showed its zzz.

[mrmeyer]

Yep. It is important that folks realize that.

[cherry]

yep...Ruby Ridge was the eye opener.....

just like Waco, those evil sob's got away with it....

[Paladin2]

Eric Holder.

[joe fonebone]

Wasn’t the”gun” charge that he sold a sawed off shotgun that instead of measuring 18” measured 17.88 inches?

His family was murdered over an eighth of an inch...

[TheDon]

That and I detest victimless crimes.

[matthew fuller]

Is English his fifth language?

[rrrod]

Shooting a mother holding a baby would qualify him to serve Putin in Ukraine...

[Karl Spooner]

Washington Post (believe it or not) wrote a good story on it at the time.

Randy was a Green Beret.

Randy Weaver's son:
"Sammy Weaver, a slight target who weighed less than 80 pounds, had been hit twice. He died from a 9mm bullet to the back that pierced his heart."

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Janet Reno couldn’t help it that she hated kids.

[Billthedrill]

RIP. Horribly written article but I see that others have corrected most of the errors. The FBI didn't actually become involved until after a team of federal marshals invaded Weaver's property to emplace cameras and one of them opened up with an automatic weapon, killing Weaver's dog, who he had tempted out of the yard by throwing stones at him. Sammy shot and missed and ran home to warn his father, and was fatally shot in the arm and back. Harris's return fire - a single shot from a deer rifle - wounded the fed, who later died on the mountain having not been evacuated by his teammates. That's when they called in the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team with no fewer than eleven snipers, one of whom was Horiuchi, who later killed Vicki Weaver and wounded Randy from ambush.

All of this was over a quarter inch of wood stock, cut by Randy at an ATF agent's direction. Weaver was acquitted by a jury of all charges except failure to appear. A dead dog, a dead boy, a dead woman, and a dead federal marshal, all for nothing.

[sauropod]

RIP Randy. You deserved better.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Lon Tomohisa Horiuchi, American murderer. “...for they have shed innocent blood in their land.” Joel 3:19

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Very sad news, after what the FBI did to him and his family he is in a much better place now and back with his wife RIP Randy!!!

[TTFlyer]

Soros troll.

[rrrod]

Putin Puffer...lol

[TTFlyer]

Ain’t laughing, NeoCon troll.

[miserare]

Rest in peace, Randy, with your dear wife, son, and best friend.

Why didn’t this article name the FBI sharpshooter, Lon Horiuchi?

Lon will burn in hell someday soon, with his boss, Janet Reno.

[rrrod]

Im laughing Putin Puffer.