蒙大拿女子在克劳印第安保留地枪杀男子 被判20年联邦监禁
蒙大拿州比林斯——美国司法部蒙大拿区 10 月 21 日宣布，27 岁的比林斯女子 Dameka American Horse
因在克劳印第安保留地一条偏僻公路上开枪打死一名男子，被判处 20 年联邦监禁，外加 5 年监督释放。
American Horse 已于 2026 年 1 月承认二级谋杀罪与在暴力犯罪中使用枪支罪。本案由联邦地区法官
Susan P. Watters 主审。
据检方文件，执法部门于 2024 年 11 月下旬获悉，American Horse 在克劳印第安保留地的一辆红色福特探
险者车内开枪打死了一名男子。案发当天上午，她驾车在比林斯市内四处寻找一位朋友，最终在该市南区
一辆停放的车旁找到对方。随后，她与朋友又遇到一名男子——后经确认身份为 Cristan Reeves-
Putman。Reeves-Putman 登上一辆红色福特探险者驾车离去，American Horse 与朋友驾车尾随。
两车在一番追逐后相遇。American Horse 与朋友下车，与 Reeves-Putman 当面对质并发生激烈争吵。朋
友随后留在探险者车内与 Reeves-Putman 一同驾车离开，American Horse 则驾另一辆车跟在后面。车队
在比林斯以南的 Meadowlark 移动房屋公园短暂停留后，最终停在普赖尔镇附近 Pryor Gap Road 路边。
American Horse 下车钻进探险者后座，正好坐在副驾驶座上的 Reeves-Putman 身后，随即掏出手枪向他
开火。Reeves-Putman 中弹后扑到驾驶座上、压在 American Horse 的朋友身上，两名男子滚出车外；
American Horse 继续开枪，又有至少 4 发子弹击中 Reeves-Putman 的胸部与手臂，其朋友亦被误伤。
Reeves-Putman 爬回驾驶座，其余人驾车返回比林斯。约一周半后，执法人员在 Pryor Gap Road 以东的
一片农田里找到了那辆福特探险者，Reeves-Putman 死在驾驶座上。
本案由联邦检察官办公室提起公诉，FBI 与印第安事务局共同调查。
Billings Woman Sentenced to 20 Years for Killing Man on Crow Reservation
BILLINGS, Mont. — The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Montana announced on Oct. 21 that Dameka American Horse, 27, a Billings woman who shot a man to death on a remote road on the Crow Indian Reservation, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. American Horse pleaded guilty in January 2026 to second-degree murder and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime. U.S. District Judge Susan P. Watters presided.
According to court documents, law enforcement learned in late November 2024 that American Horse had shot a man in a red Ford Explorer on the Crow Indian Reservation. On the morning of that November day, she drove around Billings looking for a friend, eventually finding the friend parked in a car on Billings's South Side. American Horse and her friend later met another man, identified as Cristan Reeves-Putman. Reeves-Putman climbed into a red Ford Explorer and drove off, with American Horse and her friend following in their own vehicle.
They eventually caught up. American Horse and her friend got out and confronted Reeves-Putman, sparking a heated argument. The friend stayed with Reeves-Putman in the Ford and drove off, while American Horse followed behind. After a brief stop at Meadowlark Mobile Home Park south of Billings, the group ended up parked on the side of Pryor Gap Road near Pryor.
American Horse got out of her vehicle and climbed into the backseat of the Ford, sitting directly behind Reeves-Putman, who was in the front passenger seat. She then pulled a handgun and shot him. Reeves-Putman reacted by jumping into the driver's seat on top of American Horse's friend; the two men spilled from the vehicle while American Horse continued to fire, hitting Reeves-Putman at least four more times in the chest and arm and inadvertently shooting her friend as well.
Reeves-Putman climbed back into the driver's seat of the Ford while the others drove off toward Billings. About a week and a half later, authorities found the Ford on farmland east of Pryor Gap Road, with Reeves-Putman dead inside in the driver's seat.
The U.S. Attorney's Office prosecuted the case; the FBI and the Bureau of Indian Affairs conducted the investigation.
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图片来源：图：蒙大拿州克劳印第安保留地入口景观（资料图）。照片：美国农业部，公共领域，经Wikimedia Commons。Photo: Entrance sign to the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana (file photo). Photo: U.S. Department of Agriculture, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
