What we know about the Anaconda man charged with shooting death of Carmel's Bar owner

Witness accounts and surveillance video at Carmel’s Sports Bar & Grill in Anaconda described a suspect later identified as Mark Ray Lock walking around Carmel’s landmark horseshoe-style bar, engaging in brief conversation with bar owner Shane Charles and then allegedly shooting him once around 6:50 p.m. Saturday with a 9 mm handgun.

A bystander wrestled the gun away from the man said to be Lock, who fled out the bar’s front door and then west on East Third Street.

That’s according to court records filed June 22 in Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Justice Court.

Lock, 61, a resident of the 500 block of Birch Street in Anaconda, made a brief appearance in court Monday and was charged with deliberate homicide and the use of a dangerous weapon. He remains jailed on a bond of $1 million.

Court records show that when police arrived at Carmel’s, “officers observed a male performing CPR and a female providing rescue breaths.” Charles was rushed to the Community Hospital of Anaconda but did not survive.

Court records show witnesses provided a description of the shooter to police. A bystander who pursued the suspect told police they lost sight of the suspect in the 500 block of Birch Street.

Police formed a perimeter in the vicinity. Officers Aric Strutzel and Julian Gomez encountered a man matching the suspect’s description driving a Honda Civic in their direction in the alley for the 500 block between Chestnut and Birch streets.

Det. Sgt. Eamon confirmed that this suspect, who turned out to be Lock, matched the man captured on surveillance video in the bar who allegedly shot Charles, records show.

Lock requested a lawyer. When told he was being charged with deliberate homicide, “Mr. Lock stated, ‘He died?’ and placed his head in his hands,” records show.

Search warrants were executed for Lock’s home and vehicle and for Carmel’s.

“Upon search of Mr. Lock’s vehicle, officers located two 9 mm magazines in the driver’s-side door panel and a loaded 9 mm firearm hidden beneath a flannel shirt on the passenger seat,” court records show.

At Lock’s residence, officers found “numerous additional firearms and substantial quantities of ammunition of various calibers,” records show.

Court records identify the handgun allegedly used by Lock at Carmel’s as a Springfield Armory Hellcat, which the manufacturer describes as “the world’s highest-capacity, micro-compact” handgun, with “a slim profile for enhanced concealability.”

Carmel’s website notes that Shane and Tamara Charles purchased the bar in December 2023. It reports that Shane was born in Deer Lodge but raised in Anaconda, and that he and Tamara have four daughters.

The Owl Bar, a few blocks east of Carmel’s on Third Street, was another streetcar stop when the smelter was operating.

On the morning of Aug. 1, 2025, four people, including the bartender and three patrons, were shot and killed in the Owl Bar. Michael Paul Brown, now 46, the bar’s next-door neighbor, was identified as the suspected shooter and subsequently charged with four counts of deliberate homicide and other charges. Brown’s case is ongoing.

The penalty for deliberate homicide, a felony, can include death, life in prison or imprisonment in a state prison for not less than 10 years or more than 100 years.