Authorities trying to find the shooter observed a cellphone sign had been lively on Canfield Mountain in the course of the time the gunman was there, Sheriff Bob Norris stated.
“We had a mobile phone activation that was in the identical spot since about 3:16 [p.m.], and that it was in the identical space,” he stated at tonight’s information convention. “And we honed in on that cellphone, and we noticed that there was a male, seemed to be deceased, with a weapon close by.”
Authorities consider the physique belongs to the only shooter in right this moment’s violence that killed two firefighters who responded to a brush fireplace believed to have been set deliberately on the mountain.
Norris stated federal authorities pitched in with expertise that helped observe that cellphone sign.
“There are some helicopters that had some actually good expertise that have been in a position to pinpoint the place that cellphone exercise was,” the sheriff stated. “So yeah, there was our federal companions aiding us on this state of affairs.”
Regulation enforcement helicopters have been additionally able to take out any risk, Norris stated.
“We had two helicopters that have been up, and we had snipers in them. So, if that they had a possibility to take a shot, then we needed them to take that shot,” he stated.
