The father of Idaho gunman Wess Roley once allegedly threatened to start a fire and shoot his family with a sniper rifle — eerily echoing the deadly crime his son carried out Sunday.
Roley’s dad “threatened to sit outside my house with a sniper rifle or burn my house down,” the boy’s terrified mother wrote in 2015 divorce papers obtained by CNN.
On Sunday, Roley, 20, set a blaze in the woods of Canfield Mountain near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho — then opened fire from a concealed position on responding firefighters, killing two and critically wounding a third.
He was later found dead nearby from a gunshot wound.
The young man who ambushed the smoke-eaters always “wanted to be a fireman,’’ his grandfather told the outlet.
Roley’s granddad said he “had no reason to suspect that [his grandson] would be involved in something like this.
“He wanted to be a fireman — he was doing tree work, and he wanted to be a fireman in the forest,” the grandfather, Dale Roley, told CNN. “As far as I know, he was actually pursuing it.
“It wasn’t like he was a loner,” the grandfather added, explaining that Roley had a supportive family and friends.
About a decade earlier, during his parents’ messy divorce — which unfolded when Roley was 10 years old – a protective order barring his father from contacting his family was granted to his mother.
The mom said in court papers at the time that the father also shoved her to the ground and then “punched several holes in the walls.”
The father denied the claims of violence, insisting “I am not a danger to my son or anyone else” and that the “did not tell the truth in her statement,” documents showed.
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