Man shot in Yellowstone National Park had threatened ‘mass shooting,’ park says
The person who died after being shot by law enforcement rangers in Yellowstone National Park on the Fourth of July had been shooting a semi-automatic rifle toward a dining facility at Canyon Village, the park said Tuesday in a news release.
The deceased shooter was Samson Lucas Bariah Fussner, 28, of Florida, according to a news release from the park citing the Park County, Wyoming, coroner.
Fussner, who worked for a private company that operates in the park, died at the scene after being shot by officers who had responded to a 911 call of a possible mass shooting.
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