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 “flushed out” after nearly a week of searching by law enforcement personnel.
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
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