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Randy Weaver, participant in Ruby Ridge standoff, dies at 74

FILE - Randy Weaver, the object of the Ruby Ridge siege, visits with the media at the main FBI roadblock outside the Freemen compound in Montana on April 27, 1996. Weaver, patriarch of a family that were involved in an 11-day Idaho standoff in 1992 with federal agents that left three people dead and served as a spark for the growth of anti-government extremists, has died at the age of 74. His death was announced Thursday, May 12, 2022, in a Facebook post by daughter Sara Weaver, who lives near Kalispell, Montana. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) FILE - White separatist Randy Weaver is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 6, 1995 prior to testifying before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee. Weaver appealed to the subcommittee for “accountability for the killings of my wife and son” during a 1992 standoff with federal agents at his isolated cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Weaver, 74, died on May 11, 2022, according to social media posts by his daughter, Sara Waver. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette, File) FILE - Randy Weaver holds the door of his cabin showing holes from bullets fired during the 1992 siege of his Ruby Ridge, Idaho, home, model at left, during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 6, 1995. Weaver had died at the age of 74. The Ruby Ridge standoff left three people dead and served as a spark for the growth of anti-government extremists. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette, File)