Editing Gordon Kahl (section)

==Smithville, Arkansas, shootout and death==
Kahl was being hidden at the property of Arthur H. Russell just outside of [[Mountain Home, Arkansas]]. Those who were harboring Kahl were afraid that the U.S. Marshals were getting close to finding out where Kahl was staying, and decided to move him to the residence of Leonard Ginter and his wife Norma Ginter. Kahl hid in their earth-[[berm]]ed, [[Passive solar building design|passive-solar]] home in [[Smithville, Arkansas]].

Another shootout on June 3, 1983, ended the lives of Kahl and [[Lawrence County, Arkansas|Lawrence County]] Sheriff Harold Gene Matthews. After FBI agents, U.S. marshals, [[Arkansas State Police]], and local police arrived at the Ginter home, Sheriff Matthews entered the home along with Deputy [[U.S. Marshal]] James Hall and [[Arkansas State Police]] investigator Ed Fitzpatrick. Matthews entered the kitchen and Kahl emerged from behind a refrigerator; the two men fired almost simultaneously. Kahl fired at least one round, which severely wounded Matthews in the heart, and Matthews fired a single [[.41 Magnum]] round from his four-inch [[Smith & Wesson Model 57]] revolver, which hit Kahl in the head and instantly killed him. Hall and Fitzpatrick, hearing the gunfire, fired several shotgun blasts inside the house, accidentally striking Matthews in the torso with [[buckshot]]. Matthews managed to get to a [[police cruiser]] before he collapsed, and he gasped his last words, "I got him." After Matthews stumbled out of the house, a SWAT team — unaware that Kahl was dead — began firing thousands of rounds at the house, eventually setting it ablaze by pouring [[diesel fuel]] down the house's chimney. Kahl's burned remains were found the following day.<ref>{{cite news|work=The Milwaukee Sentinel|date=June 6, 1983|page=12 (part 2)|title=Wickstrom says Kahl's death will stimulate Posse's growth|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QIFQAAAAIBAJ&pg=6980%2C1056754}}</ref> Matthews, critically wounded by the bullet fired from Kahl's Mini-14,<ref>{{cite news|work=The New York Times|author=Wayne King|title=Books of The Times; A Farmer's Fatal Obsession With Jews and Taxes|date=August 21, 1990|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/21/books/books-of-the-times-a-farmer-s-fatal-obsession-with-jews-and-taxes.html}}</ref> was taken to the hospital where he died on an [[operating table]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121107090627/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,951999-2,00.html "Shootout in a Sleepy Hamlet"]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', June 13, 1983.</ref>