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Chilling ‘coincidence’ of Idaho shooting sends Internet sleuths into overdrive

June 30, 2025
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Chilling ‘coincidence’ of Idaho shooting sends Internet sleuths into overdrive
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The deadly ambush of firefighters in Idaho on Sunday occurred on the anniversary of the burning of an infamous neo-Nazi compound by the local fire department for a training exercise in 2001.

Sunday’s killer ambushed firefighters after deliberately starting a blaze on Canfield Mountain near Coeur d’Alene, killing two of the smoke-eaters and leaving a third fighting for his life. The fiend was found dead near his gun.

Now internet sleuths have pointed out that the deadly incident occurred 24 years to the day of the deliberate burning of the former headquarters of the far-right Aryan Nations group in Hayden Lake, just 7 miles from Coeur d’Alene.

Firefighters training by burning down a building.
Sunday’s fire and shooting in Idaho took place on the anniversary of the deliberate burning-down of a former Aryan Nations compound by the local fire department. REUTERS

Aryan Nation leader Richard Butler was forced to sell the site in a bankruptcy sale after being ordered to pay a Native American woman $6.3 million in 2001 as part of a lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The hate group’s security guards had opened fire at the woman, Victoria Keenan, when she stopped outside the building with her son.

Keenan bought the dilapidated compound for $95,000 and sold it to a local philanthropist, who let the local Coeur d’Alene fire department burn it down as part of a training exercise.

Conspiracy theorists and locals are now questioning whether Sunday’s incident may have been a revenge attack for the fire department’s burning down of the compound.

Smoke rising from a wildfire in a forest.
The blaze and shooting, which left two firefighters dead, occurred just 7 miles from the site of the old hate HQ. REUTERS

Eerie pictures taken during the two-day fire-training exercise June 28 and 29, 2001, show the former headquarters of the neo-Nazi group going up in flames.

“I do not think it is a coincidence that on this date in 2001, firefighters in Coeur d’Alene burned down the Aryan Nation founder’s compound in a training exercise after he lost the property in a federal bankruptcy sale. The tragic current events are unfolding nearby,” a user wrote in a post on X on Sunday.

Police officers in tactical gear near an armored vehicle.
The sniper was later found dead near his weapon. REUTERS

A second person added on X that the attack could be “Richard Butler ppl laying stake. His compound was close by.”

A third X user wrote, “Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, is the home of the Aryan nation.

“Richard Butler made his base there, and despite being pushed out, they have returned in the last few years.”

Richard Butler, leader of the Aryan Nations, waving from a truck during a parade.
Richard Butler, the head of the Aryan Nations, was forced to sell off the compound thanks to a $6.3 million lawsuit. Jeff Green

So far, there is no indication that Sunday’s sniper had any political motivations or ties to neo-Nazi groups.

The Aryan Nations have been defunct since 2001, with no recent verified activity tied to the group after the death of Butler in 2004 at the age of 86.

The site of the compound was later converted into a park dedicated to peace, while the lawsuit effectively bankrupted the Aryan Nations and brought about its demise, as it splintered into factions.

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