Four people are dead after a shooter opened fire at Anaconda’s Owl Bar at approximately 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 1, 2025, according to a press release from the Montana Department of Justice.

In Sunday’s press conference at the Deer Lodge County Courthouse, Attorney General Austin Knudsen says the suspect in the Owl Bar shooting is still on the loose.

The suspect, 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown, lived next door to the bar, public records show. Authorities said a SWAT team cleared his home, and he was last spotted in the Stump Town area, just west of Anaconda. The massive manhunt continued into Friday evening in the wooded, mountainous area.