41-Day Standoff Ends as Last Armed Oregon Refuge Protester Surrenders to the FBI

The four remaining holdouts of the armed protest group that has occupied a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon for the past 41 days turned themselves in peacefully Thursday . . .

After the first three protesters surrendered to authorities at around 9:40 a.m. local time, the last occupier, David Fry, initially resisted. But just after 11 a.m., Fry turned himself in to the FBI, according to the Oregonian.

Fry had said on a live audio webcast that he was “feeling suicidal” and would “die a free man.” At one point he said he was pointing a gun at his head. He ranted about abortion, UFOs, the government “chemically mutating people” and Syria . . .

But eventually, after requesting listeners yell “Hallelujah,” he walked out to meet authorities . . .

One of the three protesters who turned themselves in first was holding an American flag as the group went out to meet authorities. Another protester said on an audio webcast that officials were not being rough and did not have guns pointed at the group. (Read more from “41-Day Standoff Ends as Last Armed Oregon Refuge Protester Surrenders to the FBI” HERE)

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