The body of a man found in Mount Rainier National Park has been confirmed to be that of Benjamin Colton Barnes who is believed to have fatally shot a ranger in the park on Sunday. Washington State Patrol Trooper Guy Gill confirmed via Twitter about 2:30 p.m. that a body spotted by searchers around 10:20 a.m. is Barnes, 24. Earlier Monday, Mount Rainier spokesman Kevin Bacher said the gunman was thought to be in the Paradise area of the park and that searchers hoped that the overnight cold weather would affect him as he tried to evade a manhunt involving nearly 200 area law enforcement officers, SWAT teams and federal and state agents. During the night, an airplane equipped with heat-seeking equipment had tracked the assailant through the snow. However, several law enforcement sources said that a body with "no heat signature" was found not far from Paradise about 10:20 a.m. Monday. The body was spotted from a plane and SWAT team members had spotted it from the ground, but it was far away and in difficult terrain. Until lawmen retrieve it, no cause of death or positive identification will be released...more
Video report:
No comments:
Post a Comment