Revealed: Antifa gunman, 48, who 'shot dead a Trump supporter' in Portland was armed with a handgun and 'fired up to 50 rounds' during shootout with U.S. Marshals before being killed as witnesses say 'it was like a scene from a video game'

An Antifa gunman who admitted to shooting dead a supporter of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer in Portland, Oregon, has been killed in a shoot-out with U.S. Marshals as they tried to arrest him on Thursday night. 

Michael Reinoehl, 48, was shot dead by members of a federal task force in Washington, after they attempted to apprehend him on murder charges in the killing of Aaron 'Jay' Danielson, 39.

Danielson was allegedly shot in the chest by Reinoehl after clashes between Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters broke out during a rally on Saturday night.   

Authorities on Friday said federal agents executed an arrest warrant and located Reinoehl outside of an apartment building near Lacey, Washington, about 120 miles north of Portland, around 7.30pm.

Reinoehl, who was armed with a handgun, then got into his car and attempted to flee, officials said.  

'During the attempt to apprehend him, shots were fired at the suspect in the vehicle and he fled from the vehicle on foot. Additional shots were fired at the suspect and he was later pronounced deceased at the location,' the Thurston County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.  

Earlier, the Marshals Service said federal agents had opened fire after Reinoehl produced a firearm and threatened officers' lives.  

Witnesses told the Olympian they saw a man open fire and heard 40 or 50 shots from what they believe was a semi-automatic rifle before officers returned fire and shot him dead. 

But authorities are yet to confirm whether Reinoehl fired the weapon.  

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The body of Antifa gunman Michael Reinoehl at the scene in Lacey, Washington where he was shot dead by federal officers in a shootout. Witnesses say he opened fire with a semi automatic rifle

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Michael Reinoehl, 48, (left) was killed by police on Thursday as a federal task force attempted to apprehend him on a warrant for the homicide of Aaron 'Jay' Danielson, 39 (right)

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Officers are seen attempting in vain to render life-saving aid after the confrontation around 7pm on Thursday in Lacey, Washington that left Reinoehl dead

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Officials work at a scene in Lacey, Washington late Thursday, where a man suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland was killed by police

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A car with shattered windows and likely bullet holes stands in the area where Reinoehl died in the confrontation with police. Cops say he ran from an apartment armed with a gun

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A Washington State Patrol official walks near evidence markers and a car with broken windows last night in Lacey, Wash. at the scene where Michael Reinoehl was killed as investigators moved in to arrest him

President Donald Trump tweeted about the Aaron Danielson case as the shoot-out unfolded in

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Reinoehl was killed at around 7pm on Thursday in the 7600 block of 3rd Way Southeast in Tanglewilde, a small community outside of Lacey about 55 miles southwest of Seattle. Authorities said they do not believe he lived at the address where he was shot

The U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task forces, comprised of deputy marshals, other federal agents and local law enforcement officers from a variety of agencies, are responsible for apprehending violent felons and other wanted suspects. 

In a statement released on Friday, Attorney General Bill Barr said Reinoehl, who lived in the Portland area, had fled to Washington after Saturday's shooting. 

'The tracking down of Reinoehl - a dangerous fugitive, admitted Antifa member, and suspected murderer - is a significant accomplishment in the ongoing effort to restore law and order to Portland and other cities,' Barr said.

'The streets of our cities are safer with this violent agitator removed, and the actions that led to his location are an unmistakable demonstration that the United States will be governed by law, not violent mobs,' he added. 

Local officials confirmed that Reinoehl was killed at around 7pm on the 7600 block of 3rd Way Southeast in Tanglewilde, a small community outside of Lacey about 55 miles southwest of Seattle. 

A fugitive apprehension team was in the area looking for a wanted homicide suspect when they saw the suspect, who appeared to be armed, coming out of an apartment to a vehicle, Thurston County Sheriff's Lt Ray Brady told The Olympian.  

The events that followed however, remain unclear as officials have not specified details that led up to the shooting or have confirmed who fired first. 

Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told the publication officers had 'attempted to put him into custody and shots were fired.'

According to Brady, law enforcement officers had fired shots into the vehicle and Reinoehl ran from the car and pulled out a weapon. 

Officers then fired more shots, he told the news outlet. 

Witnesses Chad Smith and Chase Cutler, who were just 150ft away from the gunman, said they saw the man get out of the car and fire '40 to 50 shots' at law enforcement before he was shot dead. 

Cutler said the scene reminded him of 'a video game'. 

Investigators haven't yet determined how many rounds were fired, Brady said.

He said Reinoehl was alone at the time of the shooting, with no children or other people present.

Brady said he doesn't think the suspect lived at the address where he was shot, and it's not clear what brought him to Lacey. 

'We don't know that specifically yet,' Brady said. 'I do not believe that was his residence.' 

Police would not immediately confirm whether Reinoehl had fired his weapon, but said that no officers were injured in the confrontation.  

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Evidence markers are placed on the ground last night in Lacey, Wash. at the scene where Michael Reinoehl was killed Thursday night as investigators moved in to arrest him. Reinoehl had been suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland, Oregon, last week after a caravan of Donald Trump backers rode through downtown Portland.

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Police walk past evidence markers at the scene where Michael Reinoehl was killed

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Michael Reinoehl, 48, was killed as a federal task force attempted to apprehend him in Lacey, a senior Justice Department official said. Reinoehl was the prime suspect in the killing of 39-year-old Aaron 'Jay' Danielson, who was shot in the chest Saturday night

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What appears to be a body is seen as officers work the scene of the fatal confrontation

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Investigators work the scene at Tanglewilde Terrace where law enforcement shot and killed a man who is reportedly Michael Forest Reinoehl last night in Lacey, Washington

A Facebook Live video posted by witness Jashon Spencer and seen by The Olympian, appeared to show Reinoehl lying on the ground after the shoot out.

'I was sitting in my backyard and all I heard was pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. … I come outside and there's a million sheriffs out here, and there’s a dude laying out here by the mailbox and he's bleeding. They hit him,' Spencer says.

'You see all of those yellow markings. They're bullets. They let loose on him.' 

Officers were seen attempting CPR on Reinoehl at the scene. 

Brady confirmed that four officers fired their weapons. He said the officers were from the Department of Corrections, Pierce County Sheriff's Office and Lakewood Police. 

Reinoehl's death came on same day that he appeared to confess to shooting Danielson in an video interview, claiming that he acted in self-defense. 

'I had no choice. I mean, I, I had a choice. I could have sat there and watched them kill a friend of mine of color. But I wasn't going to do that,' Reinoehl, 48, said in a clip of a video interview published by Vice News on Thursday. 

Reinoehl did not say outright that he shot Danielson in the fragment of video shown by Vice News before the full interview is aired on Thursday night, but did say his actions that night were in self-defense.

Vice News reported that Reinoehl said he feared he and his friend would be stabbed, but he did not elaborate on this claim.

However, Chandler Pappas, a friend of Danielson who was standing next to him when he was killed, has blasted Reinoehl's statements, saying that there was no confrontation or provocation prior to the shooting. 

'I know they will not produce anything to corroborate that story whatsoever,' Pappas said of Reinoehl's claims. 

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On the same day a warrant was issued for his arrest, Vice News published this interview with Reinoehl, in which he admitted his role in the shooting death of Danielson

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The victim of Saturday night's shooting in Portland was Aaron 'Jay' Danielson. He was a member of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer and also used the last name Bishop 

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Police arrived on the scene 'within a minute' of when gunshots rang out. The victim, later identified as Danielson, is seen wearing a hat with the insignia of Patriot Prayer

'They came up behind us, they shot my friend and killed him,' Pappas said in an interview with Fox News on Thursday.

'When they started yelling at us, we turned around. I didn't even have time to register that someone was pointing a gun at us before those shots went off,' Pappas said.

Pappas identified the shooter as 'a white guy' and noted: 'He was the only person downtown that night, other than myself, who was wearing a white shirt.'

Pappas said that he was not armed during the incident. He said that a cloud of smoke seen in bystander video of the shooting is from a can of bear mace that Danielson was carrying, which he says was punctured by one of the bullets.

The bystander video of the shooting appears to show Danielson and Pappas crossing the street toward a parking garage, before someone shouts 'We got another here!' 

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Danielson's friend Chandler Pappas (right) said in a separate interview that the shooting occurred from behind and without provocation

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Danielson is treated by medics after being shot Saturday in Portland, Oregon. Fights broke out in downtown Portland as a large caravan of supporters of Trump drove through the city

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Police are seen holding back Chandler Pappas as medics attempt to revive his friend

Another person is heard asking 'Here?' immediately before two shots ring out. 

Pappas said that no words were exchanged before the shots were fired. He said all he heard before the shots were words to the effect of 'we got a couple right here' and someone shouting 'pull it out.'

The shooting occurred after a day of tense clashes between Trump supporters and far-left groups in Portland, with activists seen trying to block a vehicles of the Trump supporters and throwing objects at them, and Trump supporters spraying mace and firing a paintball gun from vehicles.

Pappas and Danielson had participated in the pro-Trump rally, and Pappas said they were returning home when Danielson was killed. 

Reinoehl emerged as a suspect in the case after The Oregonian newspaper reported he was under investigation in the killing.

Reinoehl, who declared himself '100% Antifa', was active in Black Lives Matter demonstrations against racism and police brutality in Portland that have gone on for nearly 100 days, according to messages and videos on his Instagram feed.

Antifa is a far-left movement that is anti-capitalist, and which seeks to confront those it views as racist or authoritarian. 

Reinoehl said in posts on Facebook and Instagram he was a professional snowboarder and a U.S. Army veteran and was prepared to fight 'to change the course of humanity.'

However, a US Army spokesperson told DailyMail.com they searched their service records for a 48-year-old Michael Forest Reinoehl and were 'unable to locate this individual in our database.' 

The Stolen Valor Act of 2013 states it is a federal crime to fraudulently claim military service in order to get money or any other kind of benefit. 

In the Vice interview, Reinoehl said that he is a 'former military contractor' who provided 'security' for Black Lives Matter protests. 

'I am 100% ANTIFA,' Reinoehl said in a June 16 post, using the term for the anti-fascist movement. 

'We truly have an opportunity right now to fix everything. But it will be a fight like no other! It will be a war and like all wars there will be casualties.'

His Facebook page says he is from Gresham, Oregon, a community around 15 miles east of Portland.

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Michael Reinoehl (above) was the prime suspect in the killing of Aaron 'Jay' Danielson, a member of Patriot Prayer who was shot to death at a protest

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Reinoehl is seen left displaying a bruise from a rubber bullet and right snowboarding 

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In this post, from June 16, he claimed to have served in the army and 'hated it'. He also wrote he was 100% 'ANTIFA' and says 'We do not want violence but we will not run from it either' 

Reinoehl had been previously accused of taking a loaded gun to an earlier Portland protest and social media posts show him attending Black Lives Matter protests.

And the 48-year-old former professional snowboarder has had several previous run-ins with the police. 

In June, he was charged for allegedly racing with his 17-year-old son at speeds of up to 111mph on Interstate 84 with his 11-year-old daughter in the passenger seat.

Police said they found 'usable amounts of marijuana and unidentified prescription pills' in Reinoehl's 2005 Cadillac STS and a loaded, concealed Glock pistol.

The father of two was charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of a firearm. 

Reinoehl also was wanted on a bench warrant out of Baker County in Eastern Oregon in connection with that case, after court records showed he skipped a hearing.

The full video of Reinoehl's interview with Vice News was published less than an hour after his death. 

'I hate to say it, but I see a civil war right around the corner,' he said in the interview. 'That shot felt like the beginning of a war.'