# Mass shooting incident narrowly averted at Yellowstone 7/4/24

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**Created:** [July 11, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-incident-narrowly-averted-at-yellowstone-7-4-24/1004025 "2024-07-11T00:54:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-incident-narrowly-averted-at-yellowstone-7-4-24/1004025/1 "2024-07-11T00:54:15Z")

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I just heard about this nearly a week later from Beau of the Fifth Column.

> **[Update on July 4 law enforcement involved shooting in Yellowstone National...](https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/240704.htm)**

> **[Yellowstone National Park gunman held woman against her will and planned to...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/09/us/yellowstone-national-park-gunman-threats/index.html)**
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> The gunman who opened fire in Yellowstone National Park last week, leaving one ranger injured, had held a woman against her will and said he planned to carry out a mass shooting at July 4th events outside the park, authorities said.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lYfYWNhJd2s/maxresdefault.jpg "Let's talk about what didn't happen at Yellowstone on July 4.....") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYfYWNhJd2s)

Apparently around midnight on July 4, a woman was held at gunpoint by a man at Yellowstone National Park, where he told her he was going to commit a mass shooting. Somehow she got away from him, and alerted park rangers, who confronted him eight hours later when he came to shoot up a restaurant that had 200 people in it.

One park ranger was injured, and the shooter was killed on scene.

This was almost the worst Fourth of July ever.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-incident-narrowly-averted-at-yellowstone-7-4-24/1004025/2 "2024-07-11T00:57:21Z")

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That’d be Celebratin’ Freedumb for sure. Glad he’s dead.