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A man who started a wildfire and then fatally shot two firefighters and wounded another in northern Idaho was a 20-year-old transient who attacked the first responders after they asked him to move his vehicle, a sheriff said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris offered new details about the Sunday confrontation at Canfield Mountain, just north of Coeur d\u2019Alene, a popular recreation area. He said Wess Roley was living out of his vehicle, had once aspired to be a firefighter and had only a handful of minor contacts with area police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have not been able to find a manifesto,\u201d the sheriff said, adding a motive was still unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norris said families of the victims are \u201cin shock \u2014 absolutely. They\u2019re in shock and they\u2019re still processing it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 veteran firefighters are killed and a third is in critical condition
Battalion Chief Frank Harwood, 42, who had been with the county fire department for 17 years, was killed, Kootenai County Fire and Rescue Chief Christopher Way said during a news conference Monday. Harwood was married and had two children, and he also was a veteran of the Army National Guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coeur d\u2019Alene Fire Department Battalion Chief John Morrison, 52, was also killed after working with the department for 28 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coeur d\u2019Alene Fire Department Fire Engineer David Tysdal, 47, sustained gunshot wounds and was in critical condition. Authorities said he had two successful surgeries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the shooting, local law enforcement agencies have offered to go on every call that the fire department goes on, according to Way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know that we\u2019re ever going to be able to guarantee people\u2019s peace of mind, at least for a while after an incident like this,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we are taking every measure we can to ensure safety of our responders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roley had set a fire using flint, and the firefighters who rushed to the scene instead found themselves under fire. They took cover behind fire trucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was an interaction with the firefighters,\u201d Norris said. \u201cIt has something to do with his vehicle being parked where it was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two helicopters converged on the area Sunday, armed with snipers ready to take out the suspect if needed, while the FBI used his cellphone data to track him and the sheriff ordered residents to shelter in place. They eventually found Roley dead in the mountains, his firearm beside him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roley lived with T.J. Franks Jr. for about six months in Sandpoint, Idaho, while working for a tree service, Franks said on Monday. Franks had cameras in his apartment that caught Roley throwing gang signs at them one day, which worried Franks to the point that he called police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know what to really think about it,\u201d Franks said. \u201cI just called the cops and had them talk to him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The landlord also called Franks one morning because neighbors reported that Roley\u2019s vehicle had been left running for about 12 hours. Franks said Roley was asleep in his room and said he forgot about the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franks said Roley \u201cstarted acting a little weird\u201d and at one point shaved his long hair off completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe just kind of noticed him starting to decline or kind of go downhill,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A swift outpouring of support<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outpouring of support for the victims was swift in Coeur d\u2019Alene, a city of 55,000 residents near the border with Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours after the shooting, people gathered along Interstate 90 holding American flags to pay their respects as the two fallen firefighters\u2019 bodies were taken to the medical examiner\u2019s office in Spokane, Washington, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) from Coeur d\u2019Alene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gov. Brad Little ordered U.S. and Idaho state flags to be lowered to half-staff to honor the firefighters until the day after their memorial service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll our public safety officers, especially our firefighters, bravely confront danger on a daily basis but we have never seen a heinous act of violence like this on our firefighters before,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cThis is not Idaho. This indescribable loss is felt deeply by all those in the firefighting community and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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