Wess Roley: Suspect identified in the Idaho firefighter shooting

The suspect believed to have fatally shot two firefighters and wounded a third after having set a brush fire in Idaho spoke with responding firefighters before he opened fire, the sheriff said Monday

The suspect believed to have fatally shot two firefighters and wounded a third after having set a brush fire in Idaho spoke with responding firefighters before he opened fire, the sheriff said Monday.

Wess Val Roley, 20, is suspected of setting the fire to “ambush” firefighters, Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris said at a news conference Monday.

"There was an interaction with the firefighters," Norris said. "It had something to do with his vehicle being parked where it was."

Roley's body was found with a gun in the area of the blaze in Canfield Mountain near Coeur D’Alene, authorities said, almost six hours after the shooting began.

“It appears right now we have a shotgun that was used, but we’re still processing the scene,” Norris said.