A female member of the Ute Indian tribe has been charged in federal court with fatally shooting another woman last summer on the tribe’s reservation in northeastern Utah.
Zhondee Spring Nephi, 30, of Ft. Duchesne, was indicted Wednesday in U.S. District Court with one count of “murder in the second degree while in Indian Country” for the Aug. 23 death of 20-year-old Sukakee Manyhides.
An August news release from the FBI says Manyhides was found dead, on a road northwest of Whiterocks, which is about 15 miles north of Ft. Duchesne.
One of the alleged victims reported to jail officials that on Oct.