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June 14, 2002
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Man Slain on Lower Sioux Agency near Morton
The annual Pow-wow held on the Lower Sioux Indian
Reservation was marred by the killing of a 22-year-old Minneapolis man. The Redwood County Sheriff’s Office received
a 911 call on June 9, 2002, at 7:07 a.m. reporting that someone had
been
shot. When the law enforcement and
ambulance personnel arrived on the scene, a short distance from the
pow-wow
grounds where many people had camped, they found the victim, Frank
Irving
Parker II, dead. Parker is believed to be
of Ojibwe descent.
Two members of Lower Sioux, Christopher Richard Sander, age
25, and Dennis William Pendleton, Jr., age 20, are being sought in
connection
with the incident. The two were last
seen in a maroon colored, full-sized, sport utility vehicle, possibly a
GMC
Yukon Denali, license plate unknown.
In Indian country today, violence has become so commonplace
that a police scanner can be found next to, or very near, the
television set in
many homes. There have been other
shootings within the past ten years on this reservation but this is the
first
death to have resulted from a shooting.
Anyone with
information or knowledge of the
whereabouts of the two individuals sought in connection with the case,
should
call the Redwood County Sheriff’s Office at 507-637-4036 or their local
law
enforcement agency. |
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