TIOGA, N.D. (AP) – A man is in custody after a shooting at a crew camp in the western North Dakota oil patch that left one person dead and another injured.
The Williams County Sheriff’s Office says the shooting was reported at 10:15 p.m. Saturday at the Wanzek camp near Tioga. Sheriff Scott Busching says the circumstances are still under investigation.
Fifty-seven-year-old Gerald Schild of Katy, Texas, was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Thirty-eight-year-old Travis Lomax of Fort Smith, Ark., was flown to a Minot hospital for treatment. Sgt. Detective Steve Armstrong says Smith has been released.
A 24-year-old man from Lufkin, Texas, was arrested on a murder charge. He did not immediately make a court appearance to be formally charged.
Armstrong says the three men all worked for the Michels pipeline company.
1 dead, 1 injured in ND crew camp shooting
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