The murder of two firefighters in Coeur d’Alene Idaho on Sunday 29 June appears to be linked to a significant anniversary of an incident that occurred exactly 24 years earlier involving property that once belonged to a violent neo-Nazi white supremacist hate group called Aryan Nations.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/aryan-nations-behind-coeur-d-alene-idaho-shooting-theories-emerge-amid-ongoing-manhunt-101751250931648.html

The back-story here is that Aryan Nations was formerly based in a 20 acre security compound of buildings near Hayden Lake Idaho which is just a few miles from Canfield Mountain in Coeur d’Alene where the most recent shootings took place.

Aryan Nations lost control of their HQ at Hayden Lake following a court case in 2000 which was brought with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Centre after an incident  in 1998 when Aryan Nations security staff shot at, beat up, and threatened to murder a local American Indian woman Victoria Keenan and her son Jason.

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/victoria-keenan-discusses-run-aryan-nations/

Control of the land passed to the families of the victims as part of $6.3 million court-ordered restitution and damages settlement after Aryan Nations went bankrupt. The land subsequently became part of a Peace Park, and the Coeur d’Alene fire-department were allowed to to use the area for training purposes. On 29 June 2001 the abandoned Aryan Nations properties at Hayden Lake were burned down by local firefighters in the course of a training exercise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Nations

The deceased suspect subsequently identified on Monday as  20 y/o Wess Roley was a local resident who once hoped to become a firemen himself.  According to US social media his family strongly supported the Trump/Maga agenda.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/idaho-firefighter-attack-gunman

On Sunday 29 June 2025  Wess Roley deliberately set a brush fire on Canfield Mountain to lure firefighters to the area, then opened fire on them, killing two battalion chiefs and wounding nine others before being found dead himself after a prolonged firefight with SWAT team responders.

Edited July 1, 2025Jul 1 by toucana
corrected 'Southern Poverty Law Centre'

7 minutes ago, toucana said:

. On 29 June 2001 the abandoned Aryan Nations properties at Hayden Lake were burned down by local firefighters in the course of a training exercise.

Seems like an excellent repurposing of such places. May I suggest Mar A Lago for future training sessions?

These killings seem outstandingly reprehensible. What a sad and broken person this young guy was. It's fortunate that firefighters wear such heavy gear - otherwise there could have been more fatalities. And yet again, hello lawmakers: what part of the mental illness + firearms equation are you having trouble with?