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The following is a press release from the U.S. Attorneys Office, District of Montana.

“This defendant is being held accountable for attempting to violently eliminate the entire LGBTQ community in a small Montana town,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

John Russell Howald, 46 of Basin, was sentenced on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, to 18 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release.

John Russell Howald, 46 of Basin, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release.

“This defendant is being held accountable for attempting to violently eliminate the entire LGBTQ community in a small Montana town,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

John Russell Howald, 46 of Basin, was sentenced on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, to 18 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release.

“This defendant is being held accountable for attempting to violently eliminate the entire LGBTQ community in a small Montana town,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

“This defendant is being held accountable for attempting to violently eliminate the entire LGBTQ community in a small Montana town,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

John Russell Howald, 46 of Basin, was sentenced on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, to 18 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release.

John Russell Howald, 46, was found guilty after a four-day trial of hate crime acts and discharge of firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.