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Anaconda, Mont. , Anaconda, MT: Two inhabitants of Rural Montana Town were shaken in a local bar by alleged collective shooting of an armed gunman, stating that the city members had long predicted that he would snap.
Two people in Anaconda, Montana, who requested the sensitive nature of their comments and the prevailing spirit in the city, told Fox News Digital that Michael Paul Brown was a “loose cannon”, whose illusions were known to the residents long ago, when they killed four people in cold bloods in the owl bar last Friday.
“I have gone to a couple of barbecue with her and what not, and she has always been like a loose cannon,” a person said. “We always jokingly joking about it, like going crazy and just shooting.”
On August 7, 2025, an owl bar at Anaconda, Montana was surrounded by crime scene tape. (Peter D’Buska/Fox News Digital) (Fox News Digital)
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“Like I once met him in a fight with him and then someone was so, ‘You can see yourself better, he can kill you,” the man said. “So, he was not always there.”
The man explained that Brown, who grew up in Anaconda and there was a armor crew Army From April 2006 to March 2008, before serving in the National Guard, from January 2001 to May 2005, sometimes shares the imaginations that were out of the scope of possibility.
“He is just a storyteller, you know, just Mavement stories,” he said. “One of the stories he told me how he went and stole some artworks from some places, and then, like, killed a group of people and began a civil war.”
Both men claimed that while Brown was denied access to mental healthcare, some of the local people and in the media, Brown actually rejected the healthcare that he could need.
Michael Paul Brown wants to have a shooting incident in Anaconda-Dir Lodge County, Montana. (Anaconda-Dir Lodge County Law Enforcement Center)
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“This family tried to take him out, and he never accepted it, you know,” the first man said, even the owner of the owl bar, that brown wanted to help him again and again.
The other said that people tried to help Brown “absolutely”.
“He denied the service,” the man said. “What do I understand, there were a couple family who were trying to get it [help],
Claire Boyle is a brown niece and an anaconda resident. He told Kxfl The brown was suffering from his time in the army, and PTSD from schizophrenia.
Flowers and Momentos rest on the road in front of the owl bar in Anaconda, Montana, where four people were shot dead on Friday, August 1, 2025. (Fox News Digital)
He said, “Maike’s decline really started when my grandmother passed away.” “The trauma broke Mickey by losing his last parents.”
Brown’s mother died in 2021.
“The VA said he is no longer eligible to receive prescriptions and help for help. Montana State Hospital would not take him until it was the court order,” Boyle said. “The only way to obtain a court order was to become a disadvantage for Mickey or to be a loss for others. We warned them that there could be a snap and that sound was not of brain, and we were still left without any answer and not to turn anywhere.”
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“My heart breaks for this city,” he said. “There is no zodiac sign of forgiveness or words that can ever describe how sorry I am and how I feel for these families, I include my own.”
Boyle has not requested several comments from Fox News Digital this week.
In Montana, the Criminal Investigation Department released a new photo of Michael Brown, who allegedly ran away from the scene after shooting and killing four people at a time on 1 August 2025. (Criminal Investigation Department)
The men also scattered rumors that Brown was denied service in the bar on Thursday 31 July, which some have presented as a purpose for shooting. He said that Brown had prepared the alleged murders.
“As I said, he decided to do that day that day as he did not get out of the bar or nothing. He just went there and shot them,” the first man said. “Anyone could be there at that time.”
Meanwhile, the city of 9,000 people lives on the shore.
“This is a small city community,” said the man. “This is very difficult. This stuff does not happen here. So it has understood people about it.”
Downtown Anaconda, Montana, on 8 August, 2025. (Peter D’Bckka/Fox News Digital). (Fox News Digital)
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Brown is suspected of killing 59 -year -old Daniel Edwin Bailey, 64 -year -old Nancy Laureta Kelly, 70 -year -old David Alan Leach and 74 -year -old Tony Wayne Palm. All the victims were from Anaconda.
Mountains at Anaconda, Montana on 8 August 2025. Anaconda Smelter Stack (Right) is the oldest living masonry structure in the world and a national historical landmark. (Peter D’Buska/Fox News Digital) (Fox News Digital)
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Shortly after the massacre, the police tracked a white Ford F -150 associated with Brown, but did not detect it. The truck was equipped with external supply and food.
At the time of manhint, Brown was described as “armed and extremely dangerous” by the authorities.