The shooting happened around 10:30 a.m. local time on Friday at The Owl Bar, according to the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation.
During a press conference on Sunday morning, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen identified the four victims who were killed Friday in a shooting in Anaconda, Montana.
A manhunt is still underway for the suspect, 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown, who is believed to have killed four people at The Owl Bar.Why It Matters
So far in 2025, the nonprofit organization Gun Violence Archive (GVA), has tracked 257 mass shootings in the United States. Mass shootings are most often defined as an incident where at least four people are shot.
Anaconda, a town of roughly 9,000 people, is the county seat of Deer Lodge County, located in southwestern Montana.What To Know
The shooting happened around 10:30 a.m. local time on Friday at The Owl Bar, according to the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation, which is leading the investigation. Brown, who was a regular at the bar, was named as a suspect hours later. According to records reviewed by Newsweek, Brown lives right next door to the bar.
He reportedly fled the scene in a white pickup truck but later abandoned the vehicle. He served as an armor crewman in the U.
