In the job not for money or for glory but out of a love for the wild places, the national parks, and because she believed in providing good service to the public. she was a person with a quick smile, a very gentle person, a very competent ranger, and i might add that she s also was also a young mother with two small children at home. so, this gunman took the life of somebody who had a great deal to live for and was making great contributions to society by being a national park ranger. absolutely. such a tragic loss. we thank you so much. we know it s a very sad day for you and you ve got a very serious situation on your hands with this gunman on the loose. park spokeswoman lee taylor. again, the suspect they re looking for right now, benjamin colton barnes, 24 years old. fled on foot through mt. rainier park. also tonight, police in a
speaker, by stating now that you re willing to get more aggressive, aren t you also acknowledging that you should have done it sooner? no. i think we re running a very interesting experiment. this is the first of many contests. i don t know what the result s are going to tell me. i think people are genuinely disgusted with the negative ads and i think it will be very interesting to see what happens tuesday night. we have already seen many of the negative ads against him. we ve been reporting this all evening. a search is under way in mt. rainier national park for a gunman suspected of killing a female park ranger. park officials say another ranger attempted to pull over a driver who then ran away. ranger margaret anderson then stopped the man who opened fire, killing her before running off on foot. anderson, 34, is a mother of two children, aged 2 and 4. margaret anderson worked at mt. rainier for about four years. she s an excellent ranger, a
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Found at the location that had a cache of armor. also other weapons and survivalist gear is what they are telling us. the pierce county authorities are saying. so this is a guy that definitely knows what to do with weapons and has a background. we ll have some pictures later this evening for you as well of a tattooed barnes with his shirt off, posing with weapons. we ve just been handed some of those pictures. we ll try to turn those around for a little later. but this person definitely has some power and danger. and they want to make sure that if he is out there, and is in these mountains right now walking around that the hundreds of people that are up there right now locked away in some of the lodges and cabins and visitors centers are going to be all right. well, that s got to be terrifying for them to think that somebody could be in their midst with an assault rifle. what else do you know about the shooting earlier in the day in skyway that he could be a part of, according to som
It s also very cold out there, and he s in deep snow. they re saying that 24-year-old benjamin barnes shot and wounded four people outside of seattle yesterday morning and then he went to mount rainier park, busted through a ranger checkpoint. when one of the rangers cornered him, he opened fire, and he killed ranger margaret anderson after she blocked his way. he then grabbed a rifle, fled into the snow, and he was trying to evade police by using creeks and streams to try and make sure they couldn t follow his footprints in the snow. the entire park remains on lockdown right now. they are still efforting in getting everybody outside that park, and at one point in time more than 100 visitor were on lockdown inside a visitor center. listen to one of them. it was very emotional, up and down because, you know, we didn t know what was going on around us. we d hear little bits from from other people or from the rangers or, you know, from the cafeteria people, and we kind of tried to