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Thursday 11 July 2024
Gunman who was killed by Yellowstone rangers had planned a

July 4 mass shooting, park reveals

By MEAD GRUVER plex of hotel rooms, cabins
Associated Press and dining facilities, until
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wednesday.
warning from a woman in The facilities are run by Xan-
Yellowstone National Park terra Parks and Resorts, the
came in just after midnight main concessionaire for
on July Fourth: She’d just such facilities in Yellowstone.
been held at gunpoint by a Soon after midnight July 4,
man who said he planned to law enforcement rangers
carry out a mass shooting a heard that Fussner had held
random attack common in a woman against her will
the U.S. these days but not with a gun at a residence
in the Yellowstone region, let in Canyon Village, a lodg-
alone the park itself. ing and dining area. The
Rangers spent the next sev- woman reported that Fuss-
eral hours trying to find the ner threatened to kill her
gunman before he showed and others, including carry-
up outside a dining area ing out a mass shooting at
with 200 people inside. He Independence Day events
shot a barrage of bullets with outside the park, park of-
a semi-automatic rifle at a ficials said in a statement
service entrance. This photo provided by the National Park Service shows a sign marking the north entrance of Tuesday.
The rangers including one Yellowstone National Park on May 7, 2018. Rangers found Fussner’s ve-
who was wounded shot Associated Press hicle but not him. More than
back. 20 law enforcement rang-
Their rounds hit the attacker, questions about the attack- the U.S. from a variety of ing wildlife and the park’s fa- ers, including a park spe-

Samson Lucas Bariah Fuss- er’s intent and motivations. other countries. mous hot springs, shootings cial response team, looked
ner, 28, of Milton, Florida, Fussner’s Facebook page Fussner posted a photo of despite the park’s millions for Fussner while organizing
who died at the scene in the showed if anything pride his Xanterra Parks and Re- of visitors and high rate of to protect park visitors and

busy Canyon Village tourist about landing a conces- sorts badge and photos of gun ownership in the region employees. Around 8 a.m.
lodge area near the scenic sion job in Yellowstone, a him in snowy Yellowstone are exceedingly rare. No at- Thursday, law enforcement
Grand Canyon of Yellow- typically seasonal gig that scenes from mid-May, at tack like this one has hap- rangers encountered Fuss-
stone. often involves cooking and the onset of summer tourist pened in the park in recent ner as he approached and
The previously unreleased serving food to the park’s 3 season. There are no posts memory. fired on a service entrance
details provided by park million summer visitors. Such hinting at anger or any other The wounded ranger was re- to the Canyon Lodge dining
officials Tuesday revealed jobs usually go to somewhat motivation for the shooting. leased from a hospital but facility. Several of the rang-
a harrowing situation that younger people in their early And while Yellowstone often not identified. The shoot- ers shot at him, and he died
seemingly could have end- 20s; often they are college draws headlines for some- ing led authorities to close at the scene, according to
ed badly and raised new students who journey into times deadly mishaps involv- off Canyon Lodge, a com- the statement.q

NYPD nixing ‘Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect’ slogan on new

patrol cars for crime-focused motto

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Professionalism, Respect” fraying community rela- stacked and italicized red- inside a Brooklyn precinct
Associated Press on the exterior of its patrol tions. and-white font, as part of a station in 1997, protesters
NEW YORK (AP) — The New cars, dropping the three- Instead, the department is public relations and train- carried signs describing the
York Police Department will word motto decades after now outfitting all of its new ing campaign launched police as “Criminals, Per-
stop promoting “Courtesy, it was adopted to repair patrol vehicles with a decal under Mayor Rudy Giuliani. verts, Racists.”
that reads: “Fighting Crime, The effort included sting op- The new slogan comes
Protecting The Public.” erations to weed out rude after the department an-
A police spokesperson said officers and televised pub- nounced last year that it
the long-standing “CPR” lic service announcements would be updating its clas-
slogan will be phased out touting the department’s sic blue-and-white cruis-
as the department up- commitment to a friend- ers for the first time in de-
dates its vehicle fleet, with lier, less hostile police force. cades. The exteriors of the
the new crime-focused One department poster at new vehicles feature the
messaging eventually dec- the time reportedly read: green-and-white striped
orating the rear windows “Everybody in New York; NYPD flag and a QR code
of some 10,000 patrol cars. Black, White, Yellow or Blue enabling people to send
The spokesperson did not Could Use a Little C.P.R.” performance ratings to the
elaborate on what ac- While the effort was ap- department.
counted for the change, plauded by some New Some of the new cars also
which was first reported by Yorkers, the motto was also include a different de-
Gothamist. widely mocked and repur- cal “Protecting NYC since
The “Courtesy, Profession- posed by police critics. Af- 1845” that was unveiled by
Pedestrians pass in front of a New York Police Department patrol
car as they cross Greenwich Street, Wednesday, July 10, 2024, alism, Respect” tagline ter a white NYPD officer was the previous NYPD commis-
in New York. first appeared on the side charged with sodomizing a sioner, Keechant Sewell.q
Associated Press of patrol cars in 1996, in Black man, Abner Louima,