Ranger injured and armed person making threats dies at Yellowstone, park says

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Authorities accidental an equipped idiosyncratic who was making unspecified threats astatine Yellowstone National Park died and a parkland ranger was hospitalized aft an speech of gunfire

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. -- An equipped idiosyncratic who was making unspecified threats astatine Yellowstone National Park died and a parkland ranger was hospitalized pursuing an speech of gunfire Thursday, authorities said.

The shooting happened astatine Canyon Village, an country successful the cardinal portion of the parkland that has a campground, lodging and visitant center, aft rangers responded to a study of a idiosyncratic making threats, parkland officials said successful a statement. The connection did not accidental precisely wherever the shots were fired and whether visitors were impacted by what it called “a important instrumentality enforcement incident" that began overnight.

The ranger was successful unchangeable information astatine a hospital, according to the statement, which did not specify however the ranger was injured.

The sanction of the idiosyncratic who died was not released.

The FBI is helping the National Park Service analyse the shooting but the bureau declined further comment.

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