{"id":310378,"date":"2025-08-01T22:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310378\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T22:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:34:11","slug":"four-killed-in-montana-bar-shooting-that-is-uss-ninth-mass-murder-of-2025-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310378\/","title":{"rendered":"Four killed in Montana bar shooting that is US\u2019s ninth mass murder of 2025 | Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four people were killed on Friday in a shooting at a Montana<\/a> bar, prompting a lockdown in a neighborhood several miles away as authorities searched a wooded area for a suspect in the case.<\/p>\n

The shooting brought the number of mass murders so far this year in the US to nine, according to the Gun Violence Archive<\/a>, a non-partisan resource which defines such cases as killings in which four or more victims are killed.<\/p>\n

All those mass murders were shootings, and four have occurred in a 30-day period beginning 2 July. It was the US\u2019s second mass murder since Monday, when a man attacked<\/a> a New York City skyscraper housing the National Football League\u2019s headquarters and shot four people dead before dying by suicide.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s mass murder in Montana<\/a> happened at about 10.30am at the Owl Bar in Anaconda, according to the state\u2019s division of criminal investigation. The agency, which is leading the investigation into the shooting, confirmed four people were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

The suspect, who was identified as 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown, lived nextdoor to the bar, according to public records. Authorities said a tactical team cleared Brown\u2019s home and that he was last seen in the Stump Town area just west of Anaconda.<\/p>\n

More than a dozen officers from local and state police converged on that area, locking it down so no one was allowed in or out. A helicopter also hovered over a nearby mountainside as officers moved among the trees, Randy Clark \u2013 a retired police officer who lives there \u2013 told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Brown was believed to be armed, the Montana highway patrol said in a statement.<\/p>\n

As reports of the shooting spread through town, business owners locked their doors and sheltered inside with customers. At Caterpillars to Butterflies Childcare, a nursery a few blocks from the shooting scene, owner Sage Huot said she had kept the children inside all day after someone called to let her know about the violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re constantly doing practice drills, fire drills and active shooter drills, so we locked down the facility, locked the doors, and we have a quiet spot where we play activities away from all of our windows and doors,\u201d Huot said.<\/p>\n

Anaconda is about 75 miles (120km) south-east of Missoula. A town of about 9,000 people in a valley hemmed in by mountains, it was founded by copper barons who profited off nearby mines in the late 1800s.<\/p>\n

A defunct smelter stack looms over the valley.<\/p>\n

The owner of the Firefly Cafe in Anaconda said she locked up her business at about 11am on Friday after being alerted to the shooting by a friend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are Montana, so guns are not new to us,\u201d cafe owner Barbie Nelson said. \u201cFor our town to be locked down, everybody\u2019s pretty rattled.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people were killed on Friday in a shooting at a Montana bar, prompting a lockdown in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-310378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114955895703239018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}