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.
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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A 28-year old Billings man who admitted chasing down, shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend on Blue Creek Road in October was found dead Monday in his Wyoming jail cell.
Big Horn County, Wyoming, Sheriff Kenneth Blackburn told Q2 News Tuesday that Taylor Lee Plain Bull was found unresponsive in his cell last night.
Blackburn said both jail and medical personnel tried unsuccessfully to revive him.
The sheriff said that although no foul play is suspected, authorities immediately contacted the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation, which will now conduct an independent investigation into Plain Bullâs death.