Services to honor Cole Brings Plenty's life will take place this weekend and next week at Cheyenne Eagle Butte High School in Eagle Butte, S.D., and the Brings Plenty family cemetery in Red Scaffold, S.D. The 27-year-old actor and Haskell Indian University student was a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Brings Plenty was found dead in the late morning hours of Friday, April 5 near an abandoned vehicle in a wooded area of Johnson Country, Kan. His discovery concluded a five-day-long effort to locate him after he was declared missing in Lawrence, Kan. on Monday, April 1.
Authorities said there was no evidence of foul play in the death of 27-year-old actor Cole Brings Plenty but acknowledged that they needed to build trust with Native communities.
Frazer Harrison/GettyThe death of actor Cole Brings Plenty is roiling Native American communities, prompting police to announce Wednesday that there is no evidence of foul play and promise to “increase trust.”The 27-year-old’s body was found in the Kansas woods on April 5, nearly a week after he was last seen. No cause of death has been released. He had been declared both a missing person and a suspect in a domestic violence incident.Authorities have released little information about the investi