Suspect in killing of four at Montana bar caught after week-long manhunt

9/8/2025 12:10

A U.S. Army veteran accused of fatally shooting four people at a bar in the small Montana town of Anaconda earlier this month has been caught after a week-long manhunt, Governor Greg Gianforte said on Friday.



The suspect, Michael Brown, 45, was captured "near the search area in Anaconda" around 2 p.m. local time on Friday, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said in a statement.



"The Anaconda shooter Michael Brown has been apprehended," Gianforte said on X.



"I am proud of the unrelenting law enforcement effort this week to find and arrest Michael Paul Brown," Knudsen said.



Brown had been sought in the shooting at Anaconda's Owl Bar, which killed bartender Nancy Lauretta Kelley, 64, and customers Daniel Edwin Baillie, 59, David Allen Leach, 70, and Tony Wayne Palm, 74.



Officials have said they did not know of any motive for the killing. Family members have told local media that Brown, who served in the Iraq War, had a history of mental illness.