Oregon standoff ends with gunfire and 1 dead.
The standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge ended Tuesday with gunfire, leaving one militant dead, one injured and six under arrest after law enforcement stopped them as they drove to a nearby community meeting.
The FBI did not release the name of the person killed, but a Nevada state legislator and the Oregonian identified the deceased as Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, 55, of Canes Bed, Arizona.
Ryan Bundy, 43, of Bunkerville, Nevada, suffered a minor gunshot wound during the highway stop at 4:25 p.m. about 15 miles north of Burns, the Oregonian reported.
In a statement, the FBI said that, “During the arrest, there were shots fired,” and that the Oregon State Police were also involved in the “enforcement action.”
Six men were arrested, including Ryan Bundy and his brother Ammon Bundy, 40, of Emmett, Idaho, who led the Jan. 2 takeover of the wildlife headquarters following a rally on behalf of two ranchers sentenced to five years’ prison for arson.
Also arrested were Ryan W. Payne, 32, of Anaconda, Mont., Brian Cavalier, 44, of Bunkerville, Nevada, and Shawna J. Cox, 59, of Kanab, Utah. A sixth man, Joseph Donald O’Shaughnessy, 45, of Cottonwood, Arizona, was arrested separately in Burns.
All six face federal felony charges of conspiracy to impede U.S. officers from discharging their official duties through the use of force, intimidation or threats.
“One individual who was a subject of a federal probable cause arrest is deceased,” said the FBI statement. “We will not be releasing any information about that person pending identification by the medical examiner’s office.”
Nevada state Assemblywoman Michele Fiore said in a Tuesday night Twitter post that the person killed was Mr. Finicum, a frequent spokesman for the group, which went by the name Citizens for Constitutional Freedom.
Mr. Finicum, who typically wore glasses and a cowboy hat, was interviewed Jan. 6 by MSNBC as he sat outside under a blue tarp with a rifle in his lap, earning the hashtag #Tarpman.
“My heart & [prayers] go out to LaVoy Finicum’s family he was just murdered with his hands up in Burns OR. Ryan Bundy has been shot in the arm,” said Ms. Fiore in a Tweet.
The standoff leaders were reportedly driving on U.S. 395 to a community meeting at the John Day Senior Center in Burns, where they had been scheduled to speak with locals.
The militants, who had held frequent press conferences at the refuge, had called for the release of the two ranchers and for the Obama administration to relinquish control of federal lands to localities.
source: Oregon: 1 dead, Bundy brothers arrested as standoff ends with gunfire - Washington Times
The standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge ended Tuesday with gunfire, leaving one militant dead, one injured and six under arrest after law enforcement stopped them as they drove to a nearby community meeting.
The FBI did not release the name of the person killed, but a Nevada state legislator and the Oregonian identified the deceased as Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, 55, of Canes Bed, Arizona.
Ryan Bundy, 43, of Bunkerville, Nevada, suffered a minor gunshot wound during the highway stop at 4:25 p.m. about 15 miles north of Burns, the Oregonian reported.
In a statement, the FBI said that, “During the arrest, there were shots fired,” and that the Oregon State Police were also involved in the “enforcement action.”
Six men were arrested, including Ryan Bundy and his brother Ammon Bundy, 40, of Emmett, Idaho, who led the Jan. 2 takeover of the wildlife headquarters following a rally on behalf of two ranchers sentenced to five years’ prison for arson.
Also arrested were Ryan W. Payne, 32, of Anaconda, Mont., Brian Cavalier, 44, of Bunkerville, Nevada, and Shawna J. Cox, 59, of Kanab, Utah. A sixth man, Joseph Donald O’Shaughnessy, 45, of Cottonwood, Arizona, was arrested separately in Burns.
All six face federal felony charges of conspiracy to impede U.S. officers from discharging their official duties through the use of force, intimidation or threats.
“One individual who was a subject of a federal probable cause arrest is deceased,” said the FBI statement. “We will not be releasing any information about that person pending identification by the medical examiner’s office.”
Nevada state Assemblywoman Michele Fiore said in a Tuesday night Twitter post that the person killed was Mr. Finicum, a frequent spokesman for the group, which went by the name Citizens for Constitutional Freedom.
Mr. Finicum, who typically wore glasses and a cowboy hat, was interviewed Jan. 6 by MSNBC as he sat outside under a blue tarp with a rifle in his lap, earning the hashtag #Tarpman.
“My heart & [prayers] go out to LaVoy Finicum’s family he was just murdered with his hands up in Burns OR. Ryan Bundy has been shot in the arm,” said Ms. Fiore in a Tweet.
The standoff leaders were reportedly driving on U.S. 395 to a community meeting at the John Day Senior Center in Burns, where they had been scheduled to speak with locals.
The militants, who had held frequent press conferences at the refuge, had called for the release of the two ranchers and for the Obama administration to relinquish control of federal lands to localities.
source: Oregon: 1 dead, Bundy brothers arrested as standoff ends with gunfire - Washington Times
Paul Joseph Watson @PrisonPlanet 
