RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - A man accused in a fatal shooting near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation boundaries has pleaded guilty to murder charges.
Phillip Pond, 38, entered the plea Wednesday in federal court in Rapid City to second-degree murder and using a gun during a violent crime, KOTA-TV reported.
Pond is accused of shooting 40-year-old Justin Little Hawk in Pine Ridge on Nov. 22, 2020 after the two argued. Little Hawk died the following month at a hospital in Colorado.
Court documents say Pond shot Little Hawk in the left shoulder after the two got into an argument at the North Ridge Housing complex.
Pond recently turned himself in at a police station in Chadron, Nebraska.
Please read our comment policy before commenting.