The seven-day manhunt for the Anaconda shooting suspect appears to have come to a close Friday. According to Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton, law enforcement has taken Michael Brown, 45, into custody alive. MTN has also received similar reports from residents in the area of the search.

This is a developing story, and we will provide updates as soon as they become available.

(Local, state and government officials provided an update earlier this week.)

Brown is accused of killing four people at The Owl Bar in Anaconda on Friday.

According to the Montana Department of Justice, at about 10:30 a.m. on Friday, August 1, 2025, a man walked into the Owl Bar in Anaconda and began shooting, killing four people. The man then fled the scene in a pickup truck to the west of town, into the

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