Revealed: Antifa gunman, 48, wanted for shooting dead pro-Trump activist in Portland ‘fired up to 50 rounds’ from an assault rifle during shootout with U.S. Marshals before being killed as witnesses say ‘it was like a scene from a video game’
- Michael Reinoehl, 48, died Thursday as US Marshals moved to arrest him at his hideout in Washington State
- Police say Reinoehl was armed with a gun and ran out of an apartment but they’ve yet to confirm if he fired
- Witnesses say the suspect opened fire on police with a semi-automatic rifle, letting off 40 or 50 shots
- He had just broken his silence in video interview with Vice News where he claimed he ‘acted in self defense’
- Portland Police reportedly suspect him in the fatal shooting of Aaron Danielson which happened on Saturday
- Danielson was leaving a rally supporting President Donald Trump when he was shot dead
Keith Griffiths and Josh Boswell –Daily Mail Sept 4, 2020
MichaelReinoehl was shot and killed by police when they tried to apprehend for shooting a Trump support dead. Click to enlarge
An Antifa gunman who admitted to shooting dead a supporter of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer in Portland, Oregon, has been killed by U.S. Marshals in a shoot-out as officers tried to arrest him.
Michael Reinoehl, 48, was killed on Thursday as a federal task force attempted to apprehend him in Lacey, Washington, a senior Justice Department official said.
Reinoehl was the prime suspect in the killing of Aaron ‘Jay’ Danielson, 39, who was shot in the chest after clashes between Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters broke out on Saturday night, the official said.
Federal agents from the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service located Reinoehl outside an apartment complex after a warrant was issued for his arrest and attempted to ‘peacefully arrest him,’ officials said.
Why aren’t the Portland Police ARRESTING the cold blooded killer of Aaron “Jay” Danielson. Do your job, and do it fast. Everybody knows who this thug is. No wonder Portland is going to hell! @TheJusticeDept @FBI
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2020
During the encounter, Reinoehl pulled out a gun, ‘threatening the lives of law enforcement officers.’
‘Task force members responded to the threat and struck the suspect who was pronounced dead at the scene,’ authorities said in a statement.
Witnesses Chad Smith and Chase Cutler, who said they were just 150ft away from the gunman, told the Olympian they saw a man open fire and heard 40 or 50 shots from what they believe was a semi-automatic rifle before officers returned fire and shot him dead.
But authorities are yet to confirm whether Reinoehl fired the weapon.
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The U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task forces, comprised of deputy marshals, other federal agents and local law enforcement officers from a variety of agencies, are responsible for apprehending violent felons and other wanted suspects.
Local officials confirmed that Reinoehl was killed at around 7pm on Thursday in the 7600 block of 3rd Way Southeast in Tanglewilde, a small community outside of Lacey about 55 miles southwest of Seattle.
A fugitive apprehension team was in the area looking for a wanted homicide suspect when they saw the suspect, who appeared to be armed, coming out of an apartment to a vehicle, Thurston County Sheriff’s Lt Ray Brady told The Olympian.
The events that followed however, remain unclear as of Friday morning as officials have not specified details that led up to the shooting or have confirmed who fired first.
Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer told the publication officers had ‘attempted to put him into custody and shots were fired.’
According to Brady, law enforcement officers had fired shots into the vehicle and Reinoehl ran from the car and pulled out a weapon.
Officers then fired more shots, he told the news outlet.
Witnesses said they saw the man get out of the car and fire ’40 to 50 shots’ at law enforcement before he was shot dead.
Cutler said the scene reminded him of ‘a video game.’
Investigators haven’t yet determined how many rounds were fired, Brady said.
He said Reinoehl was alone at the time of the shooting, with no children or other people present.
Brady said he doesn’t think the suspect lived at the address where he was shot, and it’s not clear what brought him to Lacey.
‘We don’t know that specifically yet,’ Brady said. ‘I do not believe that was his residence.’
Police would not immediately confirm whether Reinoehl had fired his weapon, but said that no officers were injured in the confrontation.
A Facebook Live video posted by witness Jashon Spencer and seen by The Olympian, appeared to show Reinoehl lying on the ground after the shoot out.
‘I was sitting in my backyard and all I heard was pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. … I come outside and there’s a million sheriffs out here, and there’s a dude laying out here by the mailbox and he’s bleeding. They hit him,’ Spencer says.
‘You see all of those yellow markings. They’re bullets. They let loose on him.’
If its true its good news..but it could be a hoax death like they did with Epstein & bin Laden…This anarchist-antifa-communist garbage would be a ‘hero’ to the Judeo-Communist state, that covertly manages both Rep/Dem parties… so its possible & likely they’d save him like they did with Epslime & provide a patsy corpse…
I wonder whether the narcissism of black militants will extend as far as looting on behalf of one of their cucks ?
But I have another reflection about this: On September 11th 2001 most of us in the aftermath believed that Islamists carried out 9/11. Fast forward to 2020 and COVID-BLM and we, the moral majority are aghast at statue toppling, black looting/rioting, ANTIFA etc
Now, in the USA, and perhaps elsewhere, a “shooting” is something that we of a cynical disposition don’t take at face value. (Think Sandy Hook. And of course, this also plays into the challenge to the American right to bear arms.)
When the mainstream carries an article and speaks of witnesses, it’s case proving to those of us who will take delight in believing and being aghast that the numpties of ANTIFA are responsible. Might be real. Just putting out an alternative folks.
Who really knows the deep politics of this though ? This is good for Trump isn’t it ? I suggested events are helping Trump along at the moment.
This is brillant news!
Neo I doubt that’s the case. He was just an expendable useful idiot, they’ve got plenty of them. Why waste money on him? but good news coming out of the U S for a change. About time some commie arsewipe got wasted.
Well, Soros already scrapped him from his pay list ……..