Michael Standing Elk

Death by Force

In the blue hours before dawn on the Wind River Indian Reservation, a Native Americana male landlord named Michael Standing Elk, 42 years old and a wheelchair user, was confronted in the St. Stephens home he was renting.

Gunfire would follow before sunrise on August 8, 2023; by the next morning, August 9, the male victim, age 42, was dead of multiple gunshot wounds.

Early reports placed the scene on or near Rendezvous Road outside Riverton, and the coroner later confirmed the hom ...Read More

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