BILLINGS, Mont., Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A search was under way Wednesday in Montana for a gunman who shot and killed three people at a rural residence on Montana's Crow Reservation, the FBI said.
The suspected gunman, Sheldon Bernard Chase, 22, is wanted for questioning about the killings that occurred in a remote area of the southeastern Montana reservation, Billings' KULR-TV reported.
Big Horn County law enforcement and the Montana Highway Patrol were joined by the FBI in the search for the suspect. Authorities in surrounding states were alerted.
An FBI spokesman told Denver's KMGH-TV that Chase has a history of mental illness and is considered armed and extremely dangerous.
Names of the victims had not been released but local authorities said they were an elderly woman, her granddaughter and the granddaughter's boyfriend.
After the victims were discovered Tuesday the entire town of Lodge Grass, a community of about 500, was placed on lockdown, including all area schools.
