June 30 Update: Shooter identified as WESS ROLEY, age 20, history of violence and mental health issues.
Breaking 2: The shooter has been found deceased, sounds like it’s over.
BREAKING: Multiple firefighters shot in apparent ambush while responding to brush fire in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho … at least nine firefighters and two police officers were shot. Police are reporting shots from multiple directions.
Update: FBI, DHS, and the US Forest Service now on the scene.
Four dead now reported, multiple suspects.
Follow the search results for “Idaho FBI” on X, but proceed with caution. These events bring out fakery and engagement seekers. This Youtube channel is following live.
Idaho active shooting: Firefighters ambushed while responding to fire. 2 dead so far. bodies still on mountain. “Actively taking sniper fire.”
“We are prepared to neutralize this suspect (or suspects.)”
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 30, 2025
Iranian lone wolf?
The “en route” link isn’t working.
One can only guess the reasons for this.
Someone’s wife or kids perished in a fire, wanting “suicide by cop” or a general dislike of gov’t.
It’s impossible to know today.
“Police are reporting shots from multiple directions.”
More than one shooter – some activated terror cell?
Maybe, but Coeur d’Alene Idaho doesn’t really seem to a place they’d be.
When the George Floyd riots were going on several well armed local citizens were patrolling the city’s streets to deal with any antifa protesters stupid enough to show up there.
They’re everywhere.
Idaho is (was?) the home base of the Aryan Nations.
“Aryan Nations is a North American antisemitic, neo-Nazi[1] and white supremacist[2] hate group that was originally based in Kootenai County, Idaho, about 2+3⁄4 miles (4.4 km) north of the city of Hayden Lake. Richard Girnt Butler founded Aryan Nations in the 1970s.”
“In 2009, Aryan Nations Revival, which was then based in Texas, merged with Pastor Jerald O’Brien’s Aryan Nations, which was based in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.”
From:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Nations
Wikipedia sucks as a source on any topic.
I had a friend who joined the Aryan Nations in Idaho so he could write a freelance article on the experience. The article was published, I don’t remember where.
So, the Idaho part was correct.
There’s no point speculating. It’s just a bizarre, tragic event.
Police scanner audio from the initial attack.
“Chilling police scanner audio of frantic officers calling in for backup and medical help after a shooter set a fire in Idaho to lure in firefighters and then started opening fire on police and fire fighters as they were responding to the wildfire.”
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1939480168168337851
74 miles, an hour and 35 minutes on those roads from Ruby Ridge to Coeur d’Alene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge_standoff
I have, nobody has, any idea if this is related. To compare time lengths, the Hatfield – McCoy feud was on for 28 years.
Also from wiki: In his 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy”, vice president JD Vance claims to be a descendant of Vance Hatfield …
They’re everywhere.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/06/29/rep-ralph-norman-americans-at-risk-of-illegal-alien-crime-anywhere-following-bidens-open-borders/
It’s Idaho. Where the default suspect is a white supremacist, domestic terrorist, survivalist, anti-government, raging Trump supporter.
Trump will be blamed … Moving on …
Well … doesn’t ‘look’ like a Trump supporter …
https://channel2now.com/2025/06/30/article/news/crime/who-was-wess-roley-suspect-identified-in-deadly-idaho-wildfire-ambush-two-firefighters-coeur-dalene-killed-canfield-mountain-kootenai-county/
Kate’s always correct … never jump to any preconceived conclusions. I’m anxious to read about a 20yo’s “grievances” that led to ambush murder.
“Kate’s always correct … never jump to any preconceived conclusions. I’m anxious to read about a 20yo’s “grievances” that led to ambush murder.”
I keep seeing ‘trans’ references on US websites. Don’t know if they are being sarcastic or if it’s confirmed. The fairly quick identification is interesting, too.
Think in terms of psyops. Setting a fire and then ambushing the first responders means the next time there’s a fire, the first responders will delay and be more cautious when they get to the site. That allows the fire to spread farther, faster and do more damage.
Makes perfect sense … in the most sinister of ways.
“Known to police” in 3…2…1
My wife says he identified so quickly via fingerprints … suggesting he has already committed crimes serious enough to get fingerprinted