GREAT FALLS Ty Allen Turney has been arrested after four people were shot in Stillwater County on Monday, December 8, 2025.

Stillwater County Sheriff Charles Kem said in a news release that deputies were dispatched at about 3:37 a.m. to a reported assault at 1015 Stillwater River Road between Absarokee and Nye, where they found the four victims.

One of the victims died at the scene; the other three were taken to a hospital, where one died.

The identities of the victims have not yet been released.

The suspect - later identified as Turney - had left the scene by the time deputies arrived.

Turney was found and arrested at about 5:45 a.m.

Sheriff Kem says that Turney, 23 years old, is being held on pending charges of two counts of homicide and two counts of attempted homicide.

No other

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