A US Army veteran accused of fatally shooting four people at a bar in the US state of Montana a week ago has been arrested, according to officials. Michael Paul Brown, 45, was found on Friday afternoon near another pub not far from the scene of the original attack in the city of Anaconda on 1 August.

The former U.S. Army soldier accused of gunning down four people at a Montana bar has been captured following a weeklong manhunt.

State authorities have not said what sparked last week’s shooting, which left a female bartender and three male patrons dead. The victims were identified as Nancy Lauretta Kelley, 64; Daniel Edwin Baillie, 59; David Allen Leach, 70; and Tony Wayne Palm, 74.

Michael Paul Brown, the suspect accused by police of opening fire inside a Montana bar and killing four people has been taken into custody, PEOPLE can confirm. According to sources with knowledge of the situation, Brown was taken into custody behind The Ranch Bar just west of Anaconda on Highway 1.

Authorities launched a manhunt for Michael Paul Brown after he allegedly opened fire in the Owl Bar on Aug. 1, killing the bartender and three patrons.

Michael Paul Brown, 45, is accused of killing a bartender and three patrons at the Owl Bar a week earlier on Aug. 1.

( NewsNation) — Montana shooting suspect Michael Paul Brown, the gunman accused of killing four people in an Anaconda bar last week, has been captured after a weeklong manhunt, state officials announced Friday.

A weeklong search for a man suspected in the deadly shooting at a Montana bar ended Friday in his capture, authorities said. Michael Paul Brown, 45, had been on the run in the mountains since police said he shot four people at The Owl Bar in the town of Anaconda on Aug. 1.

Michael Paul Brown, the 45-year-old suspect in a shooting that killed four at a bar in rural western Montana, was arrested seven days after a manhunt.

Authorities announced Friday that they apprehended suspect Michael Paul Brown near the search area in Anaconda, Montana, following a shooting in a bar that left four people dead.