Officials have identified the shooter who killed two firefighters in Idaho on Sunday.
Firefighters in northern Idaho responded to a wildfire when a suspect shot and killed two of them, wounding another, on June 29, as The Dallas Express reported. On June 30, officials identified the suspect as Wess Roley.
Roley, 20 years old, had moved from Arizona to Idaho in 2023, according to CBS News. The official who identified the shooter spoke anonymously, as the source was not allowed to discuss the investigation.
Kootenai County Fire and Rescue responded to a wildfire on Canfield Mountain – near Coeur D’Alene – on June 29, as The Dallas Express previously reported. Then shots rang out.
The suspect, reportedly Roley, killed two firefighters – one from Kootenai County and one from Coeur d’Alene. He wounded another from Kootenai County.
So police responded to the scene and exchanged gunshots with the suspect. While the wildfire continued to burn, helicopters and snipers descended on the area.
That evening, a SWAT team found “a deceased male on Canfield Mountain,” and “a firearm was found nearby,” according to a press release. Per The New York Post, it was Roley.
At that point, officials lifted the “shelter in place” order for residents. Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris said officials thought this body – reportedly Roley – was “the only shooter that was on that mountain.”
