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The suspect, Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, had failed to stop when park rangers tried to pull him over?Sunday morning. The ranger, Margaret Anderson, 34, responding to radio calls, used her patrol vehicle to create a blockade. Law enforcement officials said the suspect is believed to have stepped out of his vehicle and shot Ms. Anderson. The victim was the mother of two young children and was married to another ranger at the park.
Ayn Dietrich, a spokeswoman for the F.B.I. in Seattle, said law enforcement officials believe the suspect was also involved in a shooting at a house party earlier Sunday in the town of Skyway, Wash., in which four people were injured, two critically. At the park, the suspect fired shots at other officers who responded to the scene; he then fled on foot.
“We’re looking for him within the park,” Ms. Dietrich said.
Park officials and law enforcement agencies told The Seattle Times that they found ammunition, body armor and survivalist gear in the man’s vehicle.
“We’re talking about a subject that has an advantage,” Guy Gill, a spokesman for the Washington State Patrol, told the newspaper. “He’s barricaded down in the woods, armed. It puts officers at a disadvantage. It requires a lot of planning.”
More than 100 park visitors and employees were in lockdown at a visitors center for much of Sunday. People at the park told The Seattle Times that there were people camping in backcountry areas.
The park, about 85 miles southeast of Seattle, comprises 368 square miles. Nearly all of the park is? federally designated wilderness.
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