ANOTHER SCHOOL/PUBLIC SHOOTING

[HairOfTheDog]

TRIBAL MASS MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN - 4 SHOT TO DEATH IN CALIFORNIA


Cherie Lash Rhoades, suspected mass murderer

"She bullied her way through life," said Sandra Parriott, a lifelong resident of Cedarville and owner of two downtown markets. (HOTD: Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover). "But I would never think she would start blowing people away in a meeting."

Police arrested Cherie Lash Rhoades on suspicion that she did just that Thursday in Alturas, leaving four dead and two wounded in a gun and knife attack at a meeting on whether to evict Rhoades from one of the nine little houses on the rancheria in the small town of Cedarville, California.

Cedarville is a small town of about 1,500 people in the Great Basin, where the Paiute people once roamed with the skills to live in hard country. Now there are cattle on the range. The town is tucked between the foothills of the snowcapped Warner Mountains to the west, and a string of alkali lakes to the east. The tribal rancheria is on the western edge of town, by the fairgrounds, announced by a simple wooden sign. Nine small one-story homes are grouped around a small playground. Streets are paved, with new concrete sidewalks.




Eviction from tribal housing is among the most serious punishments for American Indians. Though police have said they are still working on a motive, a nephew who lived with her, Jacob Penn, said she snapped under the pressure of her brother trying to evict her. The brother, Rurik Davis, who lived down the street on the Rancheria, had apparently taken over as tribal chairman and was among the dead. She also shot and killed one of her nieces and one of her nephews at the meeting.

Alturas Police Chief Ken Barnes said they were looking into whether embezzlement allegations spurred the tribe's efforts to evict Rhoades but they had not established any definitive motive. She had been under federal investigation over at least $50,000 in missing funds, a person familiar with the tribe's situation told The Associated Press on Friday

Almost all of the 35 residents of the rancheria are related to Rhoades. She was being held at an undisclosed location because the husband of one of the dead, the only nonrelative to be shot, works at the Modoc County Jail, Sheriff Mike Poindexter said.

She hasn't appeared in court yet.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article...258628.php
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There were witnesses to this public shooting and no doubt about who carried it out.

Stealing from the tribe (allegedly) and then killing her own family members. She's a pig.