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.
Police: Wyoming chase ended when driver shot himself
April 5, 2021
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ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) A man ended a police pursuit in southwestern Wyoming by killing himself.
Josiah Griffith, 24, led police on a chase in Rock Springs on March 29. The chase ended when the sport-utility vehicle Griffith was driving rolled down an embankment and stopped.
Rock Springs police, who hadn t previously disclosed Griffith s identity or how he died, said Friday officers found him dead in the vehicle of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Rock Springs Rocket-Miner reported.
The chase began when a Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation team tried to carry out a search warrant for a child exploitation investigation and Griffith fled, police said.
Several families are demanding accountability after they say they were victims of criminal misconduct at the hands of the Teton County Prosecuting Attorneyâs Office.
In the last few months, various complaints about the county attorneyâs office breaking the stateâs restricted disclosure law have been filed with the Wyoming State Bar, Teton County Sheriffâs Office, Jackson Police Department and Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation.
âThe Teton County Attorneyâs Office and anyone else working for the government who violated this law must be held accountable for their actions and prevented from illegally and unnecessarily damaging the reputations of people who are falsely accused of crimes in the future,â attorneys Devon Petersen and Tom Fleener wrote in an email to the News&Guide.