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.
Court documents detail the chain of events that led to Goes Ahead s death.
On October 24th, 2020, Taylor Leigh Plainbull was driving towards Pryor on Blue Creek Road in stolen truck when he passed Goes Ahead who was driving towards Billings.Â
The truck was reported stolen shortly before the encounter by a man who had left the vehicle running while he ran inside a convenience store in Billings. Four firearms were in the vehicle at the time it was stolen.Â
Goes Ahead was travelling with her boyfriend and her daughter at the time.Â
Goes Ahead and Plainbull were previously in a relationship, and the child in the back seat was theirs.