Authorities searching for the shooter noticed a cellphone signal had been active on Canfield Mountain during the time the gunman was there, Sheriff Bob Norris said.
“We had a cell phone activation that was in the same spot since about 3:16 [p.m.], and that it was in the same area,” he said at tonight’s news conference. “And we honed in on that cellphone, and we saw that there was a male, appeared to be deceased, with a weapon nearby.”
Authorities believe the body belongs to the sole shooter in today’s violence that killed two firefighters who responded to a brush fire believed to have been set intentionally on the mountain.
Norris said federal authorities pitched in with technology that helped track that cellphone signal.
“There are some helicopters that had some really good technology that were able to pinpoint where that cellphone activity was,” the sheriff said. “So yeah, there was our federal partners assisting us in this situation.”
Law enforcement helicopters were also ready to take out any threat, Norris said.
“We had two helicopters that were up, and we had snipers in them. So, if they had an opportunity to take a shot, then we wanted them to take that shot,” he said.
