Michael Paul Brown, who is accused of fatally shooting four people at a bar in Anaconda, Montana, on Aug. 1, has been taken into custody following a weeklong multiagency manhunt, Gov. Greg Gianforte announced Friday.

Brown had been on the run since the “biggest” shooting in the state of Montana in a decade. He was arrested around 2 p.m. local time Friday near the search area in Anaconda and is now in the custody of Anaconda-Deer Lodge County authorities, according to the Montana Department of Justice.

“Incredible response from law enforcement officers across Montana,” Gianforte said in a social media post . “May God continue to be with the families of the four victims still grieving their loss.”

Brown, an Army veteran, was seen on security footage fleeing The Owl Bar, where the fatal

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