{"id":1393,"date":"2025-06-30T20:49:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2025-07-01T00:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:31:07","slug":"martina-navratilova-reacts-as-suspected-shooter-in-idaho-firefighter-ambush-is-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/martina-navratilova-reacts-as-suspected-shooter-in-idaho-firefighter-ambush-is-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Martina Navratilova reacts as suspected shooter in Idaho firefighter ambush is identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/martina-navratilova-slams-pedro-pascal-after-actor-critical-jk-rowlings-stance-trans-issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martina Navratilova<\/a> reacted to the heinous ambush-style shooting in Idaho that left two firefighters dead and another wounded on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected sniper was identified as Wess Roley. Officials said Roley deliberately set a brush fire on Canfield Mountain, near Coeur d\u2019Alene to lure first responders into a deadly trap, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our country is messed up\u2026. RIP to the heroes who died and may the dead killer rot in some hellish place,&#8221; Navratilova wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kootenai County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>\u00a0said fire crews initially responded to a blaze at Canfield Mountain just north of Coeur d\u2019Alene. Audio released from the scene showed first responders calling for help.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement launched\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/manhunt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a massive manhunt<\/a>, tracking the suspected gunman through the terrain. Using cellphone data, a tactical team located Roley\u2019s body several hours later in a wooded area near the origin point of the fire. A firearm was found nearby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/suspected-shooter-idaho-firefighter-ambush-identified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SUSPECTED SHOOTER IN IDAHO FIREFIGHTER AMBUSH IDENTIFIED<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials have not yet confirmed whether he died by suicide or was fatally wounded during an exchange with authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The identities of the two deceased firefighters have not been publicly released, pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>The third firefighter, who suffered critical injuries, underwent emergency surgery and remains in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News\u2019 Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and the Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><strong>Follow Fox News Digital\u2019s<\/strong><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNewsSports_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><strong>\u00a0<u>sports coverage on X<\/u><\/strong><\/i><\/a><i><strong> and subscribe to<\/strong><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><strong><u> the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter<\/u><\/strong><\/i><\/a><i><strong>.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis legend Martina Navratilova reacted to the heinous ambush-style shooting in Idaho that left two firefighters dead and another wounded on Sunday. The suspected sniper was identified as Wess Roley. Officials said Roley deliberately set a brush fire on Canfield Mountain, near Coeur d\u2019Alene to lure first responders into a deadly trap, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}