Man convicted of murder for killing 2 women in Indian Country

A national assemblage successful Reno convicted a subordinate of the Fort McDermitt Shoshone Paiute Tribe of 2 counts of execution Tuesday successful the slaying of 2 women successful Indian Country.

Prosecutors said Stoney Prior, 43, changeable and killed 2 radical successful January 2018 connected the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, astatine the location of 1 of the victims.

The women, identified successful tribunal documents arsenic Adeline Sam, 31, and Amy Hinkey, 40, besides were members of the Fort McDermitt Shoshone Paiute Tribe.

Sam was changeable successful the caput and cervix with a shotgun, and Hinkey was changeable erstwhile successful the caput and tummy and doubly successful the limb with a shotgun, according to a transgression complaint.

U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks is scheduled to condemnation Prior connected the second-degree execution counts successful November.

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