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Butt, Mont. , Officials on Saturday issued a suspect’s Magshot in a quadruple murder in a small town of rural Montana.
45-year-old Michael Paul Brown is being held in Butt-Silver Bo County Jail in Butt, only 20 miles away, from where he allegedly closed four people in an owl bar in the city of Anaconda on 1 August.
Jail records do not say which crimes they have been accused.
Michael Paul Brown’s Magshot overlays a picture of an owl bar in Anaconda, Montana (Butt-Silver Bo Gel; Peter D’Buska/Fox News Digital)
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Daniel Edwin Bailey, 59, Nancy Laureta Kelly, 64, David Alan Leach, 70, and Tony Wayne Palm, 70, were killed in the attack. Kelly was a bartender, and the other three victims were patrons. All were from Anaconda.
After a dramatic week on the run, who left the 9,000-people residents of Anaconda on the shore that Brown could return to kill again, local police, state officials and a joint task force of federal law enforcement caught Brown on Friday.
Owl Bar where Michael Paul Brown allegedly shot and killed four people at 1 August 2025 (left) and brown’s house (right). Photographed on August 8, 2025. (Peter D’Aberoska/Fox News Digital) (Peter D’Buska/Fox News Digital)
In a press conference outside the deer Lodge County Courthouse in Anaconda, the arrest was announced by Gov Greg Gianfort.
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“Our brave men and women did not waste another one in law enforcement,” he said. “They jumped into action and began searching with the promise of not giving up until they found this suspect.
Officials said Brown was captured near a barn on private property in the west of Anaconda, from where the alleged crime took place, from where it was only five and a half miles away.
Main Saint, Montana, in the background in Anaconda leads to deer lodge county courthouse along the mountains. Photo was taken on August 8, 2025 (Peter D’Aberoska/Fox News Digital) (Peter D’Buska/Fox News Digital)
Brown’s purpose is not clear, although the residents told Fox News Digital that they had mental health problems.
His niece, Claire Boyle, while talking with a local news outlet, said that Brown was suffering from PTSD in the army with schizophrenia. He said that the VA refused to help him, which has been disputed by the residents who know Brown.
Mountains at Anaconda, Montana on August 8, 2025. Anaconda Smelter Stack (Right) is the oldest living masonry structure in the world and a national historical landmark. (Peter D’Buska/Fox News Digital) (Fox News Digital)
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“Mickey’s decline really started when my grandmother passed,” she told Ktvq“The trauma broke Mickey by losing his last parents. VA said that he is no longer eligible to receive tips and help for help.”
Boyle did not return several comment requests.