U.S. News - Manhunt for Iraq vet after Rainier ranger killed
The article mentions PTSD, but the Oden tattoo, along with biblical sins tattooed across the back of his neck makes me suspect other things. I’m posting here for some help with the tat on his belly - anyone understand that? Anyone recognize the figures on his shoulders (Kneeling Valkyrie on the left?)
Benjamin Barnes, Wanted Suspect in Park Ranger shooting
Updated at 12:10 p.m. ET: SWAT teams and rangers at Mount Rainier National Park were searching Monday for an Iraq War veteran suspected in the killing on Sunday of a ranger.
Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, possibly suffers from post-traumatic stress following his deployments to Iraq, the mother of his child alleged in court documents.
Barnes was involved in a custody dispute in Tacoma in July 2011, during which the toddler’s mother sought a temporary restraining order against him, according to the documents. In an affidavit, the woman wrote that Barnes was suicidal and possibly suffered from PTSD after deploying to Iraq in 2007-2008. She said he gets easily irritated, angry and depressed and keeps an arsenal of weapons in his home.
Overnight, dozens of people were evacuated from the visitor’s center and a small lodge.
Evacuee Dinh Jackson, a mother from Olympia, Wash., who came to Mount Rainier to sled with family and friends Sunday, said officials ordered people to hurry into the lodge after the shooting that killed a park ranger.
Officials had everyone get on their knees and place hands behind their heads as they went through the building, looking at faces to make sure the gunman was not among them, Jackson said.
“That was scary for the kids,” she said.
Updated at 9:20 a.m. ET: About 125 people have been evacuated from the visitors center at Mount Rainier as authorities search for a gunman suspected of killing a park ranger.
Pierce County Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer says the visitors were transferred from the park overnight in groups of vehicles over the span of a few hours.
He says teams looking for the suspect were assessing new tactical plans that they planned to put into place at daylight. About 150 officers converged on the park after ranger Margaret Anderson was shot to death Sunday morning.