At least two people were killed on Sunday, June 29, in the American state of Idaho (Northwest) in an ambush in firefighters who were fighting a brush fire, the local sheriff announced.
“Now we have two deaths. We have an unknown number of victims (…) At this time, we are receiving sniper fire,” journalists told the Kootenai County Sheriff, Robert Norris.
The shooter has demonstrated “without signs of wanting to go,” he said, encouraging the police to be attracted to neutralize the threat. ” Several heroic firefighters were attacked today while working in a fire in the north of Idaho, “said state governor Brad Little in X, denouncing” a direct and hateful attack against our brave firefighters. “
The local firefighters, Pat Riley, said “broke the heart” for the attack on the local television channel KHQ. The order for the inhabitants to take refuge, established during the confrontation since then, the office specifies in a press release.
The shooter found dead
On Sunday night, the authorities announced that they had found a “deceased man” in the American state of Idaho (Northwest), at the site where firefighters fighting against a fire had been caught.
“Tonight, members of an elite police unit located a deceased man in Canfield Mountain,” said Kootenai’s Sheriff’s office in Idaho, and added that “a close firearm was found.” After verification, it is the shooter, he informed the Sheriff early this Monday morning.
With more firearms in circulation than residents, the United States showed the highest firearms mortality rate in all developed countries. The murders are a recurring scourge that so far the successive governments have not failed, many Americans remain very attached to their arms.
In the United States, the right to use a weapon is protected by the second amendment to the Constitution. According to the Archive Archive, there were 189 mass shootings this year in the United States, defined by the organization as incidents in which at least four people, in addition to the shooter, are killed or wounded.
Source: BFM TV
