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.
Cole Brings Plenty, 27, was found dead in a wooded area in Kansas on Friday. The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe has now demanded an investigation after cops insisted there was no foul play.
“I learned through this series of events that our police department must work harder to increase trust with our Native American community members," the police chief in Lawrence, Kansas, said.