Update 1:50 pm: Travis M. Burrows, the Supervisory Resident Agent with the Salt Lake City division of the FBI, confirmed to media that a shooting did take place and the suspect has been apprehended by law enforcement. The FBI confirmed two people were killed and a third injured Wednesday, July 29, near the town of Pryor on Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that two people were killed and a thir… Tana Shane told her daughter in their Native American language to run.
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His name has not officially been released by authorities but family members at the scene said were told the man is Jesus Deniz.
The statement by Special Agent Larry McGrail II was filed in U.S. District Court seeking a murder warrant for Jesus Deniz, also known as Jesus Deniz Mendoza, of Worland, Wyoming.
Elliott and Montana Department of Justice spokesman John Barnes say they are unsure whether the person being sought is a suspect or a witness.
Hugs said his aunt drove by a stranded man on Pryor Creek Road just south of Pryor and went home and picked up her husband and daughter to offer help. “Both my brother and sister-in-law have big hearts”. The heinous attack happened close to the Crow Nation reservation in Pryor after the Shane’s tried to help Deniz as he had run out of gas.
Another relative of the Shane family corroborated Ada Shane’s version of events in an interview with The Billings Gazette.
He ordered the father to stop the auto and told everybody to get out, Ada Shane said. She fell, heard another shot, and started running again toward a church just as a auto was pulling out.
Hugs said Jora Shane ran to a nearby school and met a vehicle there. Their daughter Jora Shane, 24, was shot, but escaped. It grazed her in the head, and when she took off, (he) shot her in the back.’. As of Wednesday evening, the status of her condition was unknown.
‘The victim that was transported to the emergency room really doesn’t know what’s going on, ‘ Elliott said.
It is not clear whether Mendoza has an attorney.
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Flathead County has a tentative agreement to purchase a former Wal-Mart building in Evergreen to house the county jail.
