Man who pleaded guilty in Crow killing dies in custody in Wyoming
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) A man who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a woman in front of her child on the Crow Indian Reservation in southern Montana has died in custody, authorities said Tuesday.
Taylor Leigh Plainbull, 28, died in custody in Big Horn County, Wyoming, after being found unresponsive in his cell on Monday and attempts to revive him were unsuccessful, the county sheriff’s office said in a statement. The circumstances of his death were under investigation by the Wyoming Department of Criminal Investigation.
Man who pleaded guilty in Crow killing dies in custody
April 13, 2021 GMT
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) A man who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a woman in front of her child on the Crow Indian Reservation in southern Montana has died in custody, authorities said Tuesday.
Taylor Leigh Plainbull, 28, died in custody in Big Horn County, Wyoming, after being found unresponsive in his cell on Monday and attempts to revive him were unsuccessful, the county sheriff’s office said in a statement. The circumstances of his death were under investigation by the Wyoming Department of Criminal Investigation.
No foul was suspected, the sheriff’s office said.
BILLNGS â Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson issued the following statement via press release Tuesday, in seeking the dismissal of the murder case against Taylor Leigh Plain Bull:
âThe U.S. Attorneyâs Office is seeking to dismiss the case against Taylor Lee Plain Bull, 27, a transient, after receiving notification today that he had died while in custody in Big Horn County, Wyoming. Mr. Plain Bull was awaiting sentencing on July 27 for conviction of second degree murder. Mr. Plain Bull had pleaded guilty on March 3 to second degree murder and to use of a firearm during a crime of violence in the Oct. 24, 2020 fatal shooting of a woman and injury of a passenger in her vehicle along Blue Creek Road on the Crow Indian Reservation.â
A 27-year-old man died in jail Monday while awaiting sentencing for the murder of his ex-girlfriend on the Crow Indian Reservation last year, and the U.S. Attorney s Office in Montana is seeking to dismiss the case against him.
In a statement issued Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Attorney s Office announced that it had been notified earlier in the day that Taylor Leigh Plain Bull died while in custody in Big Horn County, Wyoming.Â
Plain Bull had been facing up to life in prison after he admitted to killing 26-year-old Lenita Goes Ahead in October 2020 in an area along Blue Creek Road south of Billings on the Crow Indian Reservation.
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