Police: Body found at Washington park is that of gunman

Credit: AP

In this undated photo provided by the Pierce County Sheriff's Dept., Benjamin Colton Barnes, is shown. Officials said Barnes is a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a park ranger at Mount Rainier National Park, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012 in Washington State. (AP Photo/Pierce County Sheriff's Dept.)

by MIKE BAKER

AP

Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:06 AM

Updated today at 6:20 PM

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) -- Authorities have confirmed Monday afternoon that a body found on the slopes of Mount Rainier National Park was that of an Iraq War veteran suspected in the slaying of a park ranger. Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, is believed to have fled to the remote park to hide after an earlier shooting at a New Year's house party near Seattle that wounded four, two critically. Authorities believe he shot ranger Margaret Anderson later Sunday. Fear that tourists could be caught in the crossfire in a shootout with Barnes, who had survivalist training, prompted officials to hold more than a 100 people at the visitors' center before evacuating them in the middle of the night.

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