{"id":2472669,"date":"2025-08-08T21:29:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-in-montana-bar-shooting-arrested-after-weeklong-manhunt-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T21:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:29:17","slug":"suspect-in-montana-bar-shooting-arrested-after-weeklong-manhunt-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-in-montana-bar-shooting-arrested-after-weeklong-manhunt-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Montana bar shooting arrested after weeklong manhunt &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuspect-in-montana-bar-shooting-arrested-after-weeklong-manhunt-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2472669&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A suspect in a Montana bar shooting that killed four people was arrested after a weeklong manhunt. Michael Paul Brown, 45, opened fire at a bar in Anaconda, Montana, killing a bartender and three customers. After fleeing the scene by truck, he abandoned the vehicle and hid in the nearby hills. Montana authorities conducted a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >large-scale search involving<\/a> over 30 agencies, eventually capturing Brown, who was armed and considered extremely dangerous. Brown, a former Army armor crewman with a deployment to Iraq, reportedly suffered from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-year-old-girl-pepper-sprayed-during-interaction-with-rochester-police\/\" title=\"9-Year-Old Girl Pepper Sprayed During Interaction With Rochester Police\">mental health issues<\/a>, including PTSD and schizophrenia. Officials expressed relief at his capture and offered sympathy to the victims&#8217; families.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Suspect in Montana bar shooting arrested after weeklong manhunt<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2198855\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The man suspected of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3489526\/officials-scour-montana-ex-us-soldier-bar-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"killing four people\">killing four people<\/a> at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Montana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"killing four people\">Montana<\/a> bar was arrested after a weeklong manhunt.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Paul Brown, 45, opened fire at an Anaconda bar last Friday, killing a bartender and three customers, identified by officials as Nancy Lauretta Kelley, 64; Daniel Edwin Baillie, 59; David Allen Leach, 70; and Tony Wayne Palm, 74. He fled the scene in a pickup truck before ditching it shortly after and hiding in the Montana hills. Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced at a press conference that Brown had been &ldquo;flushed out&rdquo; after nearly a week of searching by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/update-washington-d-c-mayor-muriel-bowser-was-warned-but-refused-any-additional-help-before-january-6th-vote-on-stolen-election\/\" title=\"UPDATE: Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Was Warned but Refused Any Additional Help Before January 6th Vote on Stolen Election\">law enforcement personnel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3495396\/active-shooter-reported-emory-university-georgia\/\">One officer dead after shooting at Emory University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3494647\/chicago-illegal-immigrants-noem-police-ice-sanctuary-city\/\">Chicago police refused to turn over 92% of illegal immigrants to ICE under Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3490476\/illegal-immigrant-self-deportations-trump-cbp-home-app\/\">Skepticism mounts after DHS claims 1 million illegal immigrant self deportations under Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Law enforcement vehicles are parked at the scene where Michael Paul Brown, a suspect in a shooting at a Montana bar that left four people dead, was apprehended on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, outside of Anaconda, Mont. (Joseph Scheller\/The Montana Standard via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good day,&rdquo; Knudsen declared on Friday. &ldquo;We got our man.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Brown was armed at the time of his capture, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am proud of the unrelenting law enforcement effort this week to find and arrest Michael Paul Brown. The support we&rsquo;ve seen for the community of Anaconda from across the state and the nation has also been remarkable. The families and friends of the victims remain in my prayers,&rdquo; Knudson said in a statement after his capture.<\/p>\n<p>Before his capture, the Army veteran was &ldquo;believed to be armed, and he is extremely dangerous,&rdquo; said Lee Johnson, administrator of the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Brown served as an armor crewman in the Army from 2001 to 2005. He entered active duty service in 2001 and left in 2005, a stint that included a deployment to Iraq from early 2004 until March 2005. He then served in the National Guard from 2006 to 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Brown&rsquo;s relatives said he suffered from a litany of mental health problems since leaving the Army, including PTSD and schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This isn&rsquo;t just a drunk\/high man going wild,&rdquo; Clare Boyle, Brown&rsquo;s niece, wrote in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;message. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a sick man who doesn&rsquo;t know who he is sometimes and frequently doesn&rsquo;t know where or when he is either.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3489526\/officials-scour-montana-ex-us-soldier-bar-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"OFFICIALS SCOUR MOUNTAINOUS AREA OF MONTANA FOR EX-US SOLDIER SUSPECTED OF KILLING 4 IN BAR SHOOTING\">OFFICIALS SCOUR MOUNTAINOUS AREA OF MONTANA FOR EX-US SOLDIER SUSPECTED OF KILLING 4 IN BAR SHOOTING<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He lived a short walk away from the site of the massacre. Locals said he didn&rsquo;t have any feuds with those killed that they knew of.<\/p>\n<p>The manhunt for Brown was massive in scale, involving hundreds of people from over 30 agencies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2198855\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2198855\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana bar shooting suspect caught after weeklong search<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2472670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Michael-Brown-massacre.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[60539,3900,8605,48407,32076],"class_list":["post-2472669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-bar-shooting","tag-manhunt","tag-montana","tag-suspect-arrested","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Michael-Brown-massacre.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472673,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472669\/revisions\/2472673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}