The human hunting of the suspect that opened fire and killed four people in a Bar in Montana spread until his fourth day on Monday.
Michael Paul Brown, 45, is still in the LAM after allegedly entering the owl bar in Annaconda around 10:30 am on Friday, he fatally told a waiter and three clients and flee, said the attorney general of Montana, Austin Knudsen.
The victims were identified on Sunday as waitress Nancy Lauretta Kelley, 64, and three clients: Daniel Edwin Baillie, 59; David Allen Leach, 70; and Tony Wayne Palm, 74.
It is not clear what motivated the shooting, and Knudsen described Brown as an “unstable individual” who probably met the victims.
The public is warned that it is armed and dangerous, since officials announce a reward of $ 7,500 for information about their whereabouts.
This is what we know:
The shooting:
The authorities claim that Brown opened fire at the owl bar on Friday morning using a personal rifle and then fled the scene.
Brown lived next to him, apparently alone, and was a regular at the bar, said Knudsen.
“I think he is likely to meet the Cantinero and these clients, which makes him even more atrocious,” Knudsen said at a press conference on Friday.
The Montana Department of Justice launched a photo of Brown on Saturday that represented him using only shorts and fleeing.
Kndusen said the photo was taken “relatively soon” after the shooting. Brown supposedly went to another place not far from the bar and eliminated his clothes and some personal belongings. The authorities believe that he then obtained new clothes from a stolen vehicle that was loaded with camping equipment, said Knudsen.
“At this point, we have all the reasons to believe that the suspect is completely dressed, standing shoes, capable of moving,” Knudsen said Sunday.
The law agents briefly chased Brown in that vehicle, but they retired when they realized that he was probably armed, Knudsen said. Brown was not in the vehicle when the police finally arrived.
Knudsen told NBC News that after finding the car, he led the police to deduce that Brown was “most likely in the mountains, hidden in the wood, on the cover somewhere.”
That car persecution was the last contact of the application of the law with Brown.
“There was some confusion because there were two white vehicles involved,” Knudsen said on Sunday. “There were some federal assets involved in that search, but I think that was the last contact of the application of the law with approximately noon.”
Anaconda, about 25 miles west Butte and adjacent to the continental division, is part of a consolidated government with Deer Lodge County in southwest Montana. The city and the county have less than 10,000 combined residents.
The search
Local, state and federal partners are now looking for Brown, who is released.
Officials have focused the search for multipleGENCIES in the area in Stumptown Road and expand it to Lake Barker and the surrounding area.
At one point, more than 250 boots were on the floor on Saturday in the search, Knudsen said. The effort includes canine detection units, as well as infrared and heat detection technology used by air, drones and personnel who perform camp and hunting sites searches.
A $ 7,500 reward was announced on Sunday to obtain information about Brown’s whereabouts, and the United States Marshal service established a 1-877-926-8332 direct line.
Knudsen said Sunday that the response of the application of the law will change a bit in Anaconda as some personnel return to their origin bases and that the effort becomes a “fugitive location operation.”
He pointed out that Brown may have died for suicide, “but we are acting under the assumption that he is alive, well, armed and extremely dangerous.”
There is also concern that Brown can return to the city, Knudsen said.
An army veterinarian who fought with mental health problems
Brown was known by the Local Police, had a criminal record and had access to firearms, said Knudsen.
It was described by people who knew him as having mental health problems.
Shane Charles, who grew up with him in Anaconda and has another bar, previously said to NBC News that Brown fought with the post -traumatic stress disorder.
“Mike was a great guy when he was on his medications. He had some mental health problems,” Charles said.
Brown’s niece, Clare Boyle, also said she fought with mental health problems, according to Associated Press.
“This is not just a drunk/tall man who goes crazy,” he wrote on a Facebook post cited by the AP. “He is a sick man who does not know who he is sometimes and often does not know where or when he is.”
It served in the army, leaving in 2009 with the range of sergeant. Brown was an armor team from January 2001 to May 2005, and in the Montana National Guard from April 2006 to March 2009. He was deployed in Iraq from February 2004 to March 2005.
The victims
Nancy Lauretta Kelley, 64, was a recently retired oncology nurse who began to work part -time at the Owl Bar approximately a year and a half, said her daughter Kristian Kelley to NBC News.
He had worked as a nurse for about 30 years and picked up Buman’s work to “fill something from his time,” Kelley said.
Kelley recalled having heard about the shooting through a friend’s text message and called her mother, but did not receive an answer. He then went to Anaconda and soon discovered that his mother was one of the victims.
Kelley said she knew Brown and that he was someone in the community who would share “a little wild stories” of her time in the army.
“Maybe they were quite incredible, so I don’t know, but I think many of them were adorned,” he said. “And maybe he believed them. I’m not sure, but it was definitely someone who needed attention.”
The shooting was a shock for Kelley, who described Anaconda as a small but safe place.
“We don’t even close our cars outside, you know, or the house, and it is, I mean, I would not say that it is dangerous here at all,” he said. “But when people do not receive services, you know, in rural areas, sometimes this is what happens.”
David Allen Leach, 70, was deaf and lived in a public housing complex for older people and people with disabilities.
“He was a good neighbor,” Robert Wyatt told Associated Press. He remembered Leach as always happy to help neighbors with tasks as moving furniture.
“If you need help, Dave would help,” Wyatt said.
