Authorities are searching for a gunman who allegedly opened fire at a Montana bar on Friday morning and killed four people, officials and media reports say.
Law enforcement announced on social media that officers responded to reports of an active shooter in the small town of Anaconda, Mont., around 11:40 a.m. PST. The Associated Press confirmed the four fatalities in an alert later Friday afternoon.
“There is an active shooter in Anaconda Deer Lodge,” the Granite County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook. “Granite County deputies are at the Georgetown Lake / Flint Creek area. The shooter is said to be wearing a tye dyed shirt, blue jeans and an orange bandana.”
The sheriff’s office asked community members to remain vigilant while they search for the suspect, who they later identified as