Mount Rainier shooting suspect found dead

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Updated: 1/02/2012 11:36 am
Mount Rainier (KMTR) - Authorities have found the body of a man suspected of killing a Mount Rainier National Park ranger.

Police say the Iraq war veteran apparently died after trudging into chest-deep snow while running from snow-shoe wearing SWAT team members and other police who were on his trail.

Twenty-four-year-old Benjamin Colton Barnes reportedly fled to the remote park following an earlier shooting that wounded four people near Seattle.

Washington State Patrol spokesman Guy Gill says a body believed to be Barnes was found face down in the snow. The identity of the body has not been confirmed.

Almost all park visitors had been evacuated from the area following the Sunday slaying of Margaret Anderson.

The park remained closed for a second day Monday.

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Baldr Odinson - 1/3/2012 12:28 PM
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It's sad that there is so little treatment available for vets suffering post-traumatic stress, with tragic consequences. There was one such incident early in 2011 here in Eugene, where a PTSD vet shot at cars at Valley River Center, then was subsequently shot and paralyzed by police. Please join me and various non-profit organizations in lighting a candle for shooting victims at a candlelight vigil, Jan 8, at 5 PM, at the federal old courthouse at 7th and Pearl in Eugene. Mayor Piercy will be the keynote speaker.
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