Jesus Yeizon Deniz, 18 of Worland, the suspect in a double homicide that occured on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana on Wednesday has other pending charges in Washakie County.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation documents only referred to the family by their initials, but the Big Horn County, Montana, Coroner’s Office identified the deceased as Tana and Jason Shane Jr., according to CNN affiliate KULR.
The couple’s daughter, 26-year-old Jorah Shane, was shot in the back while trying to run from the gunman Wednesday in the small town of Pryor on Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation. Mendoza then shot her mother, Tana Shane. U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn Ostby scheduled a preliminary hearing for August. 5 and ordered Deniz into the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
WORLAND, Wyo. (AP) – Relatives and neighbors say an 18-year-old Wyoming man accused of shooting a family that stopped to help him on a Montana roadside had been in and out of trouble, but they’re surprise at the charges leveled against him.
Patty Sanchez said she had known Jesus Deniz since he came to live in the town as a boy.
“Each my brother and sister-in-law have huge hearts”, Ada Shane.
According to the affidavit, citing the daughter’s account of the incident, the suspect stepped out of his truck, pointed a rifle at the family and ordered them from their auto, then demanded money, which they said they did not have.
Deniz told FBI agents he shot the victims because he was getting exhausted of waiting around and because the daughter laughed at him.
Tana Shane went by her house, picked up her husband and daughter and drove back to the stranded auto, Ada Shane said. The man pulled a gun and held it to the temple of 51-year-old Jason Shane.
The man told them to start walking. Jorah Shane told her aunt that she heard a shot, started running then heard bullets whizzing by her head. She was running and didn’t look back, the document says. Tana Shane told her daughter in their Native American language to run. Ada Shane said she didn’t know how to tell her niece that her close-knit family was gone. She escaped, and was quickly rushed to an area hospital.
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Deniz’s attorney asked a judge for the signature bonds because Deniz’s parents wanted him in their care. Park County court officials said a hearing had not been set for Deniz. Messages left on two phone numbers listed under Mendoza’s name were not returned.
