<p>Residents of a rural town in Montana tried to return to regular life Saturday as the search for a gunman who opened fire inside a neighborhood bar, killing four people, continued with little new information.</p><p>Authorities said that Michael P Brown, a 45-year-old Army veteran, fled into the brushy foothills after the attack at the Owl Bar in Anaconda on Friday morning. They urged residents and business owners to go about their business over the weekend, with caution. Stores reopened, though the streets of Anaconda were somewhat quiet.</p><p>A bartender at the Owl Bar and three patrons were killed in the attack, officials said Saturday, without naming the victims. On Saturday, the tavern was cordoned off with yellow police tape. Someone had placed two small bouquets of flowers against a lamppost outside.</p>.Montana gunman on the loose after 4 killed at a neighborhood bar.<p>The search centered on an area west of town where authorities found an abandoned white pickup truck Friday. It was unclear how the suspect fled; officials said Saturday that a truck they towed had not been involved in the shooting. The dense terrain made searching difficult.</p><p>The killings occurred about 10:30 am Friday. Witnesses said they heard gunshots in the bar. Brown was well known around Anaconda, and social media posts show he had been to the establishment before. Records show that Brown lived two houses down from the Owl.</p><p>“We’re doing everything we can to find and bring this perpetrator to justice,” Chief Bill Sather of the Anaconda Deer Lodge County Police said in a video posted to social media Saturday.</p><p>Relatives of Brown described him as shy, loving and long dealing with mental illness, including diagnosed schizophrenia, that worsened after his mother died in 2021. A sister who spoke on the condition that her name not be used said that he was so paranoid that he refused to own a cellphone.</p><p>Brown joined the Army in January 2001 and served in Iraq between 2004 and 2005 before leaving the service in May 2005 as a sergeant, an Army spokesperson said. He was in the Montana National Guard for about two years until March 2008.</p><p>Two relatives of Brown said he had returned from the Army with physical ailments and severe post-traumatic stress disorder that gave him night terrors. They also said he was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder in addition to schizophrenia.</p>
<p>Residents of a rural town in Montana tried to return to regular life Saturday as the search for a gunman who opened fire inside a neighborhood bar, killing four people, continued with little new information.</p><p>Authorities said that Michael P Brown, a 45-year-old Army veteran, fled into the brushy foothills after the attack at the Owl Bar in Anaconda on Friday morning. They urged residents and business owners to go about their business over the weekend, with caution. Stores reopened, though the streets of Anaconda were somewhat quiet.</p><p>A bartender at the Owl Bar and three patrons were killed in the attack, officials said Saturday, without naming the victims. On Saturday, the tavern was cordoned off with yellow police tape. Someone had placed two small bouquets of flowers against a lamppost outside.</p>.Montana gunman on the loose after 4 killed at a neighborhood bar.<p>The search centered on an area west of town where authorities found an abandoned white pickup truck Friday. It was unclear how the suspect fled; officials said Saturday that a truck they towed had not been involved in the shooting. The dense terrain made searching difficult.</p><p>The killings occurred about 10:30 am Friday. Witnesses said they heard gunshots in the bar. Brown was well known around Anaconda, and social media posts show he had been to the establishment before. Records show that Brown lived two houses down from the Owl.</p><p>“We’re doing everything we can to find and bring this perpetrator to justice,” Chief Bill Sather of the Anaconda Deer Lodge County Police said in a video posted to social media Saturday.</p><p>Relatives of Brown described him as shy, loving and long dealing with mental illness, including diagnosed schizophrenia, that worsened after his mother died in 2021. A sister who spoke on the condition that her name not be used said that he was so paranoid that he refused to own a cellphone.</p><p>Brown joined the Army in January 2001 and served in Iraq between 2004 and 2005 before leaving the service in May 2005 as a sergeant, an Army spokesperson said. He was in the Montana National Guard for about two years until March 2008.</p><p>Two relatives of Brown said he had returned from the Army with physical ailments and severe post-traumatic stress disorder that gave him night terrors. They also said he was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder in addition to schizophrenia.</p>