Idaho firefighter sniper Wess Roley was working as an arborist and living in his van when he killed two emergency service personnel. Roley, 20, ambushed crews that had responded to a bush fire he set off with a flint fire starter while on Canfield Mountain, outside of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on Sunday. At the time of the incident he was living out of his van, which was recovered at the scene, while working for a tree service in the area. Officials say Roley, who was 5-foot-8, took his own life after killing firefighters Frank Harwood, 42, and John Morrison, 52, and critically injuring Dave Tysdal, 47, during the rampage. His grandfather Dale Roley said his grandson came from a family of arborists, describing him as ‘nervous’, ‘high strung’ and ‘kind of a loner’ on Monday. According to local records, Roley’s father Jason runs his own tree service business in nearby Priest River. It is unclear if he was working with him at the time of the killings. Former classmates have since revealed that Roley would graffiti his notebooks with drawings of swastikas and guns. Harry Standley had attended middle and high school with Roley, telling USA Today he would play the video game Call of Duty with him. According to Standley, fellow students recalled seeing the drawings and told the outlet: ‘We were all pretty scared of him.’ (…) ‘Everybody just thought he was weird. He was also obsessed with guns’, he added. The Daily Mail had published images of Roley wearing a t-shirt of a death metal band on Monday, that have links with a known neo-Nazi. Officials said preliminary information indicates the suspect acted alone in the shooting, and detectives have not yet identified a motive.
via dailymail: Idaho shooter’s idyllic suburban day-job disguise that hid his obsession with Nazis and guns
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