Well as Konehead alluded to he was on the run from another shooting the night before. What I don't know is why the park rangers office didn't know there was a suspect on the loose. Granted, Rainier is a fair distance from Seattle, but there should have been an APB on the vehicle. The guy was tailed when he blew through a checkpoint for tire chains. I suppose when he went through it, they didn't get a chance to run the plates, but you would think that someone would have realized that something was terribly wrong and checked into dangerous suspect activity before pursuing. My guess is the parks will be changing their operating procedures in the very near future.
What's really mind-boggling about this is that the anti-gun crowd is using this to bring up the issue of allowing loaded weapons onto federal parks...as if this scumbag would have thought twice about driving onto Rainier if that law had never been passed. I'm not one to be heavily enamored by guns rights, but even I can see how stupid that is.
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