Update…

MINTO, N.D. (AP) – A fund has been established for the family of
three North Dakota children slain last month on the Fort Berthold
Indian Reservation.
     Thirteen-year-old Benjamin Schuster, 10-year-old Julie Schuster,
and 6-year-old Luke Schuster were shot to death Nov. 18, along with
their 64-year-old grandmother, Martha Johnson, in New Town.
     The fund, set up through KodaBank in Minto, is in the name of the children’s father, Kevin Schuster.
     A New Town man who killed himself in the nearby town of Parshall
later the day of the slayings is considered a person of interest in
the case.

 

NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) – A man who killed himself with a knife in front of law enforcement officers and has been called a “person of
interest” in the slayings of a New Town woman and three of her grandchildren has been identified.
     Mountrail County Sheriff Ken Halvorson identified the man as
21-year-old Kalcie Eagle of New Town. Halvorson says Eagle killed
himself in front of a deputy and a highway patrolman on Sunday
night in Parshall.
     Halvorson says authorities are still trying to determine what
role – if any- Eagle played in the shooting deaths Sunday of
64-year-old Martha Johnson and three of her grandchildren.
     FBI spokesman Kyle Loven declined comment, citing the ongoing
investigation.