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Montana man who evaded authorities for a week after bar shooting faces |
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4 counts of murder |
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By Associated Press |
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11:17 AM EDT, Sun August 31, 2025 |
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Source: AP |
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A man suspected of and evading capture for a week while hundreds of law |
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enforcement officers searched for him in the nearby mountains faces |
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four counts of murder, according to court records. |
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Defendant Michael Paul Brown lived next door to where a bartender and |
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three patrons were shot and killed August 1. |
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Authorities have not commented on a potential motive for the |
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45-year-old former soldier. His niece has said Brown long struggled |
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with mental illness. |
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The charges Brown faces were posted on a court website Saturday after |
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the case previously had been under seal by a state judge. Charging |
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documents were not immediately available. |
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Following the shooting, authorities said Brown stole a truck and then |
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ditched it a few miles outside of town, close to where he was . |
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He hid in nearby forests, moving locations while overhead and officers |
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and dogs searched on the ground, officials said. But he was eventually |
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flushed into a sparsely populated area near a state highway by the |
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pressure of so many officers searching for him, according to officials. |
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Brown was captured on August 8 inside an unoccupied structure near a |
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state highway. |
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Investigators also are examining whether he had any contact with |
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individuals or property owners who might have helped him while he was |
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on the run. |
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State Department of Justice spokesperson Chase Scheuer said Friday that |
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the probe is ongoing. |
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Brown is scheduled to make an initial district court appearance on |
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September 3. He is being held on $2 million bail and represented by |
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attorney Walter Hennessey, who did not immediately respond to telephone |
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messages on Friday or Saturday. |
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Anaconda, about 25 miles northwest of Butte, is home to roughly 9,000 |
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people. Hemmed in by mountains, it was founded by a copper magnate in |
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the late 1800s. A smelter stack that is no longer operational looms |
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over the valley. |
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The owner of The Owl Bar has said Brown patronized it over the past |
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several decades, but he was not aware of any conflicts between the |
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suspect and victims. |
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A conviction for murder, known in Montana as deliberate homicide, is |
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punishable by death in the state. Executions have been on hold since |
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2015 under a court ruling regarding a drug used in lethal injections. |
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