White skunk doesn’t know the status of the investigation. He was shot with a shotgun above the neck. “It’s been three, going on four, years since my brother was murdered.

attorney put out,” the 43-year-old tribal health administrator says.īut in his next breath, White skunk says his own brother, Avery, at age 41, was murdered just north of Sleeping Ute Mountain, the landmark looming over tribal headquarters in Towaoc, in the extreme southwest corner of the state. The reservation rate is comparable to 250 or 300 killings per 100,000 people, he says, and more federal resources are desperately needed.Įid’s characterization is an unfair exaggeration, says former Tribal Chairman Selwyn Whiteskunk. attorney Troy Eid, dwarfs the state average of nearly 4 homicides per 100,000 people. The Ute Mountain Ute homicide rate, says U.S. attorney to label this tiny sovereign nation “the murder capital of Colorado.” The case is making its way through the federal court system.Ī handful of such incidents each year – fatal stabbings, bludgeonings, beatings, shootings and drunken-driving accidents – have prompted a U.S. Posey died later in the Cortez hospital Lameman denies shooting her. Lameman fired the gun into Posey’s chest, according to an eyewitness. Lameman allegedly struck Posey in the right eye with the butt of the revolver. Lameman then persuaded 26-year-old Tasha Posey to put the gun to her head and pull the trigger. He put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger twice, according to the FBI affidavit. Ives malt liquor when 28-year-old Samson Lameman began to play Russian roulette with a long-barreled, silver revolver. Towaoc – It was one of five, possibly six, killings on the isolated, 2,000-person Ute Mountain Ute Reservation last year.įriends were passing an afternoon drinking St. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu

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