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    After recent killings on California reservation, tribes ask for help to stem violence

    Even for a community already accustomed to some level of violence, the two brutal killings on a rural Northern California reservation this spring were a shock. Nicholas Shehli Whipple had been so severely beaten that Round Valley Indian Tribal police didn't initially notice the 20-year-old had been shot. Three weeks later, 16-year-old Ruby Sky Montelongo's body was discovered in a vacant field ...
    by Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times May 11, 2023 5 minutes
    The wall in the Britton's home is filled with high school awards of Khadijah Britton, who was a talented basketball player.

    Even for a community already accustomed to some level of violence, the two brutal killings on a rural Northern California reservation this spring were a shock.

    Nicholas Shehli Whipple had been so severely beaten that Round Valley Indian Tribal police didn't initially notice the 20-year-old had been shot. Three weeks later, 16-year-old Ruby Sky Montelongo's body was discovered in a vacant field in Mendocino County by her uncle, Gerald "Lij" Britton.

    Lij Britton has been through this before. His daughter, Khadijah Britton, vanished from the remote reservation in February 2018 after "being forced into a car at gunpoint by her ex-boyfriend," according to the FBI. The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office has a suspect in the case, but without a body, officials say it's difficult to make an arrest. She was 23 when she disappeared.

    The recent violence, along with Khadijah Britton's unsolved disappearance, . Thestretches back to white settler colonialism and the , worsened by a broken foster-care system and the ravages of drugs, domestic violence and human trafficking.

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