Suspect identified in firefighter ambush that left 2 dead and 1 injured in Idaho

[chowder66]

Source: CNN

Authorities identify suspect in firefighter ambush
From CNN's Mark Morales
Authorities have confirmed the identity of the suspect in the firefighter ambush as 20-year-old Wess Roley, according to a law enforcement official.

Investigators believe the suspect intentionally set a brush fire on Canfield Mountain on Sunday before opening fire on responding firefighters, killing two and injuring a third.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/idaho-coeur-dalene-firefighters-shooting?t=1751303318472

[Lovie777]

1. 20 years old.........................

[Prairie Gates]

3. Right in the fat part of the age curve for emerging paranoid schizophrenia

More guns for everybody!

Tra la!

[PatSeg]

2. That is pretty sick

[gab13by13]

4. At the Sheriff's press conference last night

he stated that these ambushes occur in urban areas where there is civil unrest. He said he couldn't recall an ambush like this occurring in rural America.

Now he knows of one.

[hadEnuf]

5. Sounds like a typical Fox news viewer.

All the cities are in flames and run by Latino gangs shooting random people.

[mike_c]

6. I hate it when that happens

[Marthe48]

8. The only enlightened sheriffs are fictional characters

in mystery novels. In real life, we get idiots like this guy.

I live in a rural county in Ohio. In the last 2 years, here are crimes that made the paper: At the end of our street, a guy killed his baby. One street over, there was a murder suicide. Police regularly chase suspects who are armed and have committed anything from drug crimes to robberies to murder. Are these shootouts with cops? No, but it has happened in the area-just up the river there was a chase and a hostage situation. I don't even read a local paper or watch the news and I'm aware of the criminal activity around me.

According to recent stats, crime is more likely in rural areas than urban areas. Anyone who thinks it's the other way around is uninformed.

[IronLionZion]

12. This sort of ambush is logistically easier in the woods with fewer people around

There are plenty of white nationalist groups, militias, and other extremist groups in rural America. Some sheriffs choose to remain in denial about the risks from them. Sometimes it's local people they knew growing up. "some of those that work forces"

[Skittles]

13. reminds me of the idiots who don't lock their doors

until the local AXE MURDER occurs, then EVERYONE is locking their doors

[electricmonk]

17. Right? I've lived in rural areas and

I read In Cold Blood decades ago. My doors are locked no matter where I am. Car door too when I'm running into the gas station.

After every mass shooting all the neighbors or citizens in the area say, "this was such a nice, quiet area. We never thought it would happen here." Why not? What makes your area so special? This is America. It can and will happen anywhere.

[kimbutgar]

7. Searched for a picture of the guy white and there also is a picture of his parents posing on front of the

Whitehouse wearing maga hats! So that kid has been indoctrinated in magaloon craziness since he was a young kid!

[C Moon]

9. Wow! I figured it was someone with mental disease.

Will they find some kind of manifesto? They usually do in these cases.

[H2O Man]

14. That's possible.

He appears to have been disorganized in his planning overall. But there are some curious parts of his thinking that were focused. So time will tell if he left a manifesto, or thinks he is part of a "underground" internet group fighting for "freedom"? Or just a lone sad clown who thought this was the way to get an audience.

[C Moon]

15. I didn't see it anywhere, but it appears he took his own life?

[H2O Man]

16. That seemed to be

the tone of police and reporters last night, although they didn't confirm it. I haven't been able to watch any reporting on it yet today.

Tragic that he injured and killed others.

[IronLionZion]

11. MAGA hat proves mental illness these days

CNN speculated that no matter what motive they uncover, it will never make sense. Nobody hates firefighters.

[H2O Man]

18. Right.

I don't think anyone would consider him a picture of mental health. But his actions show that he knew right from wrong.

[IronLionZion]

10. WTF is wrong with people

[H2O Man]

19. Seriously.

Human beings have two cerebral hemispheres. When they are in conflict, often due to a chemical imbalance, when I was young they called it a "nervous breakdown." ("They" being adults who were not familiar with mental illness.)

I think the conscious and unconscious energy from the two sides of a cultural/economic/political divide -- though the maga are not an equal half of citizens -- is causing a conflict that is prone to get good people out to "No Kings!" rallies, etc., while the maga cult becomes more frustrated.

In sociology, studies show that outbreaks of violent usually breaks out when a group believes their lives will "get better" when their leader is making promises he will not keep, rather than a group that feels helpless and hopeless. I think the failure of the felon to carry through on his promises is sparking the conflict in the maga brains.