One dead as FBI move to arrest US ranch standoff militia leader

A man has been killed and another wounded as federal officers arrested the leader of an anti-government militia occupying a wildlife refuge in rural Oregon. Shots were fired as Ammon Bundy was taken into custody along with four other people during a traffic stop along Highway 395 on Tuesday afternoon, the FBI said. Those arrested all had leadership roles in the militia laying seige to the remote Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the agency said. Protesters were understood to be still occupying the refuge following the confrontation and the FBI has set up a cordon around the complex.

I think my perception is that people’s patience was running thin and that the community as a whole was looking for some resolution and to have these people leave.

Burns Mayor Craig LaFollette

Bundy, 40, was reportedly on the way to a community meeting he was scheduled to speak at when authorities stopped his vehicle. Ryan Bundy, Ammon’s brother, suffered a minor gunshot wound during the arrests, the Oregonian newspaper reported. Authorities did not immediately identify the dead person, who was named by CNN as Robert LaVoy Finicum. The Bundy bothers are the sons of Cliven Bundy, 69, an outspoken anti-government activist who in 2014 engaged in an armed standoff with federal authorities over unpaid cattle grazing fees at his Nevada ranch.

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