The man who authorities say tried to carry out a mass shooting in Yellowstone National Park last year spewed racist views months before his attempted attack, prosecutors said in court documents. In documents filed with the U.S. District Court in Wyoming last week, federal prosecutors said Samson Fussner, 28, planned the potential mass shooting they called “a terror attack” and revealed his plans to his brother. Fussner ranted about his mental health issues, racist ideas and plans for mass shootings in the employee dining room and at a fireworks display in West Yellowstone, Montana, according to court documents. Prosecutors said in the documents that Fussner had a history of expressing white supremacist and antisemitic views and that he was an active member of a website dedicated to those views. Prosecutors filed the documents in an effort to have Fussner’s weapons, ammunition and SUV that were seized during the investigation forfeited to the government. The gunman revealed his plans to commit violence to his brother days before dying in a shootout with park rangers, according to court documents. He complained to his brother about Yellowstone in text messages, prosecutors said, using racial slurs to describe people there and calling the park a “hellscape,” according to the documents. Fussner worked for a private business that was authorized to operate in Yellowstone, according to the National Park Service.
via cbsnews: Yellowstone Park shooting gunman spewed racist views before thwarted attack, prosecutors say