Law enforcement officers are seen at the scene where Michael Brown, a suspect in a shooting at a Montana bar that left four people dead, was apprehended on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, outside of Anaconda, Mont. (Duncan Adams/The Montana Standard via AP)

A man suspected in a shooting at a Montana bar that left four people dead was captured Friday just a few miles from where the shooting happened after hundreds of law enforcement officers spent the past week scouring nearby mountainsides, authorities said.

Michael Paul Brown, 45, was taken into custody around 2 p.m. near the area where authorities had focused their search in the days following the Aug. 1 shooting at The Owl Bar in Anaconda, about 100 miles from Missoula.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said during a news conference that

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