Doc7505
Diamond Member
- Feb 16, 2016
- 23,561
- 41,937
- 2,430
Suspect identified in firefighter ambush that left 2 dead and 1 injured in Idaho
30 Jun 2025 ~~ By TuAnh Dam, Zoe Sottile, Amanda Musa, Danya Gainor, Susannah Cullinane, Amanda Jackson, Audry Jeong, Omar Jimenez, Hanna Park and Karina Tsui, CNNWhat we're covering
• Authorities identify suspect: Investigators have confirmed the identity of the suspect found dead on Canfield Mountain on Sunday as 20-year-old Wess Roley, according to a law enforcement official.• Suspect found dead on mountain: The suspect is believed to be the only shooter involved in the fatal ambush on firefighters in Idaho on Sunday, investigators said. Roley is believed to have started a brush fire before shooting at responding firefighters, the Kootenai County sheriff said.
• Two killed, one injured: Two firefighters were fatally shot and a third was out of surgery and stable as of Sunday night, the sheriff said.
• Fire still burning: The blaze that prompted firefighters to respond has scorched about 26 acres with no structures damaged, officials said. Residents were advised to be prepared “should further action need to be taken.”
~Snip~
Investigators likely working to understand suspect's motive, former intelligence official says
From CNN's Lauren MascarenhasInvestigators are likely working to understand the motivation of the Idaho suspect who they believe started a brush fire before shooting at responding firefighters in what authorities describe as a planned ambush, a former intelligence official told CNN.
“Right now, behind the scenes, there’s a lot of work going on to really understand who this individual is and what motivated them to carry out this attack,” Shawn Turner, former US national intelligence communications director, said Monday.
Commentary:
Agitators and fear mongers on this board have inferred that because this occurred in Idaho, it was a "White Supremist" attack...
Rather, at this point no one knows the facts.
Will the reason(s) why a 20 year old Wess Roley committed this murderous act be revealed? We will see.
Will this heinous act be buried like the trans attack on school children in Tennessee? We will see.
Hats off to law enforcement that quickly reacted at the threat.:
“At 2:00, the firefighters called and said they had been ambushed,” Steve Moore, a retired FBI supervisory special agent, told CNN.
“For the next 90 minutes … according to the sheriff at Kootenai County, they were responding and engaging the shooter with firearms. And that’s about the time this phone stopped moving around in the woods. And so, either the responding officers or agents – whoever it was – they neutralized it. Or they caused this person to realize there’s no way out and, at that point, they took their lives.”
