Posted on 09/22/2024 5:25:54 AM PDT by blueplum
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Hours before a gunman opened fire at an entrance to a Yellowstone National Park employee dining hall, injuring one ranger, authorities had been warned he planned to carry out a mass shooting at the facility, officials said Thursday.
The revelation came as authorities released videos and other new details about the July 4 shooting in which rangers stationed to protect the facility at Canyon Village killed Samson Lucas Bariah Fussner, 28, of Milton, Florida, after he opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle...
Late on July 3, Fussner held another concessionaire worker against her will with a gun and knife at her residence in Canyon Village.
Early on July 4, the woman reported that Fussner threatened to kill her and others, including carrying out a mass shooting at Independence Day events....
Yellowstone officials didn’t immediately respond to an email Thursday asking why they didn’t previously disclose that Fussner told the woman he planned a mass shooting at the dining room.
The incident remains under investigation by the FBI and authorities have not yet cleared rangers of wrongdoing in the confrontation...
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Samson Lucas Bariah Fussner. Do I even need to look?!
“The incident remains under investigation by the FBI and authorities have not yet cleared rangers of wrongdoing in the confrontation. Not all materials related to the confrontation have been released.”
Another case of “Don’t protect yourself or someone else from a perp or you might be accused of a crime in the good ole USA of today
Authorities who ignore these kinds of warnings should be prosecuted as complicit in the act.
He is a white guy. Not sure about ancestry.
My guess, nut case.
He got summer job there. He was from FL.
You are right. This was a specific warning. Why was it ignored?
The vague warnings, “I’m goung to.......” with nothing real said is different than this detailed warning.
Reading between the lines, he was a temp/seasonal employee who had the hots for a female colleague — a concessionaire. She probably spurned his advances and he took it very badly.
OK, that clears a lot up. She was not mentioned much in this article.
The assessment of the timeline recorded by machine voice did not make much sense either.
Was pretty stupid on his part. No lay is worth losing your life. He was nuts.
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