The FBI and state police staked out a spot along the route to John Day to stop the caravan. At first, both vehicles complied with an order to pull over, but then the lead vehicle took off, the law enforcement official said.
It didn't get very far, hitting a snow bank. Finicum, the official said, jumped out of that vehicle "brandishing a firearm." He was shot and killed.
Ryan Bundy, 43, of Nevada, was also struck by gunfire. He was wounded in the arm, the official added, and was released Tuesday night from a local hospital where he'd been treated for the gunshot wound.
The official did not know who fired the shot or shots that killed Finicum, 54, of Arizona.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fed ... ay-n505126
I'd like to know how, at this early stage, Ammon managed to talk by phone to Cliven. That part bears some explanation, for me.
I was thinking though, since the conspiracy theories are going to flow like water, we should start one of our own. We should release a statement that the LGC, on good authority from a guy we know heard from a chick he used to date who is now dating a guy in uniform (we won't say which uniform) that he heard it from his buddy who really anchors the bowling league but gets too drunk at the victory parties that Ammon Bundy shot LaVoy Finicum so the whole thing looks like the cops did it. We should get that statement out ASAP.
We'll be lying in our teeth, but we'll be famous.
