Kyle White thought the noises outside his downtown Anaconda home last Friday morning were the sounds of routine construction. Then his police scanner started crackling.

“In two or three minutes, there were calls going out, and [police] were here just like that,” White told Montana Free Press at his house Sunday.

White lives a few doors down from The Owl Bar, where law enforcement says longtime Anaconda resident Michael Brown opened fire around 10:30 a.m. Friday, killing bartender Nancy Lauretta Kelley, 64, and patrons Tony Wayne Palm, 74, David Allen Leach, 70, and Daniel Edwin Baillie, 59.

Mary Jane Rangitsch, who has lived in Anaconda for 33 years, watched the police swarm the scene from her window opposite the bar. Brown, though, sped away in a stolen white Ford-150 pickup truck and

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