Suspect in custody after May 25 shooting outside Rocking R Bar
EBS STAFF
A 28-year-old man was killed early the morning of Monday, May 25 in a shooting in downtown Bozeman resulting from an altercation that began inside the Rocking R Bar on Main Street.
Officers responded around 12:44 a.m. to the 200 block of East Main Street after reports of a shooting outside of Rocking R Bar, according to a press release from the Bozeman Police Department. Officers began life-saving efforts at the scene before the victim was transported to Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
Authorities said the suspect fled in a vehicle but was quickly located and taken into custody. Twenty-two-year-old Jakob Steven Lundberg was arrested and charged with deliberate homicide, according to reporting by the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Police said there is no ongoing threat to the public.
According to an official affidavit documenting the incident, Lundberg and the victim, 28-year-old Sidney Callaghan, became engaged in a fight inside the bar and were escorted outside by bar staff. The fighting continued until the suspect—detectives were highly confident the shooter was Lundberg, based on video surveillance and other evidence—went back to his vehicle and returned with a firearm, which he discharged multiple times, killing Callaghan before fleeing the scene.
“Violence of this magnitude in the heart of our community is devastating,” Gallatin County Attorney Audrey Cromwell stated in a press release from the county attorney’s office. “Our office will continue working closely with law enforcement to ensure a thorough review of the evidence and to seek justice for Sidney.”
Lundberg appeared before Gallatin County Justice Rick West on May 26, and is being held on $1.5 million bond, high-level supervision and conditions preventing access to firearms, drugs or alcohol. Charges will be filed in Gallatin County District Court in the coming weeks.
“With the assistance of neighboring agencies, we were able to quickly identify, locate and detain the individual responsible for this act,” the BPD release stated. “We ask any member of the public who may have witnessed this incident or have additional information to report it to the Bozeman Police Department.”
