The body of a man suspected of killing a Washington state park ranger was discovered on Monday in an icy mountain creek in Mt. Rainier National Park.
Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, is believed to have died from exposure to the elements, reported the Seattle Times. Barnes, a veteran of the Iraq war, was carrying a handgun, a knife, and ammunition, but dressed in light clothes.
“The manhunt has been concluded,” said Steven Dean, the FBI special agent leading the investigation and search, according to the newspaper.
Barnes was unprepared for the snowy and cold mountain park, Pierce County Sheriff spokesperson Ed Troyer told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
“He was wearing T-shirt, a pair of jeans and one tennis shoe. That was it,” Troyer said.
Ranger Margaret Anderson, 34, was shot dead on New Year’s Day after she erected a roadblock to stop a car that did not stop at a checkpoint in the park.
Barnes is also suspected to have been involved in a shootout that left several people injured near Seattle on New Year’s Eve.
