Four killed in Montana bar shooting that is US’s ninth mass murder of 2025

<p>Manhunt for suspect who lived nextdoor to bar where shooting occurred on Friday morning at about 10.30am</p><p>Four people were killed on Friday in a shooting at a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/montana">Montana</a> bar, prompting a lockdown in a neighborhood several miles away as authorities searched a wooded area for a suspect in the case.</p><p>The shooting brought the number of mass murders so far this year in the US to nine, according to the <a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-murders">Gun Violence Archive</a>, a non-partisan resource which defines such cases as killings in which four or more victims are killed.</p><p><em>Associated Press contributed reporting</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/montana-bar-shooting">Continue reading...</a>