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   From: dheiss@aim.com   
      
   A man who fatally shot his wife and three children in a remote   
   Montana forest cabin over the weekend then set his house on fire   
   and committed suicide was described on Tuesday by police as a   
   survivalist who lived off the grid.   
      
   Michael Augustine Bournes, 59, called an acquaintance around the   
   time he used a .45 caliber handgun to kill his wife, Arie Arlynn   
   Lee, 37, and his two sons, Augustine Lee Bournes, 5, and Woodrow   
   Lee Bournes, 4.   
      
   He shot his infant daughter, Arie Lee Bournes, 1, as she lay in   
   her crib.   
      
   Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Police Chief Tim Barkell said that   
   authorities who investigated the scene said books found at the   
   cabin indicate Bournes may have been “a Constitutionalist who   
   didn’t believe in government.”   
      
   Barkell, who described the couple as survivalists based on the   
   fact that the residence was ‘off the grid’ or not hooked up to   
   public utilities, said the family had moved to the area from New   
   Mexico nearly three years ago, but was unknown to his department.   
      
   Barkell said each victim was shot once in the head and likely   
   died instantly, but gave no details on the sequence of the   
   deaths.   
      
   “We know where mother, baby and two boys were shot, and have a   
   good idea of the order, but hate to put it out,” he said.   
      
   Barkell said Bournes shot his two sons outside the cabin, but   
   carried them in and laid them on a bed beside his infant   
   daughter’s crib. He then set fire to a chair, laid down beside   
   his children, and turned the gun on himself.   
      
   Police said little is known of his motive other than when he   
   called the acquaintance and threatened harm to his wife and   
   children.   
      
   The acquaintance, who has chosen not to be identified, described   
   Bournes to police as a relative loner who worked as a handyman,   
   plumber and occasional logger, Barkell said. Autopsies are   
   underway at the state crime laboratory in Missoula.   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/10/us-usa-crime-montana-   
   idUSKBN0OQ00P20150610   
       
      
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