Suspected gunman still at large and possibly armed after four people were fatally shot at a bar in Anaconda on Friday
Suspected gunman still at large and possibly armed after four people were fatally shot at a bar in Anaconda on Friday
Montana’s attorney general on Sunday released the names of the four people who were shot to death in a mass murder at a bar two days earlier.
The victims were Daniel Edwin Ballie, 59; Nancy Lauretta Kelly, 64; David Allen Leach, 70; and Tony Wayne Palm, 74. All four were residents of Anaconda, Montana, where the quadruple murder took place, a statement from the Montana attorney general, Austin Knudsen, said.
Former US army soldier Michael Paul Brown, 45, is suspected of having killed Ballie, Kelly, Leach and Palm at The Owl Bar in Anaconda. Kelly was a bartender, and the others were patrons, Knudsen said at a news conference Sunday.
Brown remained at large as of Sunday, with officials warning that he may be armed as well as getting around in a stolen car containing clothes and camping gear.
Knudsen alleged that Brown carried out Friday morning’s mass murder with a rifle that law enforcement believes was his personal weapon.
The attorney general warned residents in the town of just more than 9,000 people that Brown, who lived next door to the bar where he was a regular, could come back to the area.
Anaconda is about 75 miles (120km) south-east of Missoula in a valley hemmed in by mountains.
“This is an unstable individual who walked in and murdered four people in cold blood for no reason whatsoever,” Knudsen remarked on Sunday.
