A North Dakota man is behind bars after he fatally shot his sister and 3-year-old niece and injured his mother on an Indian reservation, police say.

Johnnie Jay Gaking, 27, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. Fargo NBC affiliate KVLY identified the deceased victims as Gaking’s sister, 31-year-old Tiana Sharel Walking Eagle, and her 3-year-old Lokia Jay Lee Walking Eagle. According to a probable cause arrest affidavit in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota, the shooting occurred at a home on the Spirit Lake Reservation near Tokio.

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Agents with the Bureau of Indian Affairs entered the home and found Walking Eagle and her daughter Lokia dead from gunshot wounds to the head. Paramedics rushed Gaking’s mother to the hospital.

Cops learned that after allegedly shooting the three, Gaking drove to another home on the reservation. Two people in the home told cops that Gaking arrived in a blue Ford Focus and came inside with “crazy eyes,” the affidavit said. He allegedly stated that his sister was “dead, they’re all dead, I didn’t do it.” Gaking had blood on his chest and abdomen from self-inflicted stab wounds, the affidavit stated.

The suspect then drove away and crashed into a ditch. Cops then took him into custody. In the ambulance on the way to the hospital, Gaking allegedly told an agent that “men in ski masks had been stalking him” and “they” made him kill his loved ones. At first, he insisted the people in ski masks stabbed him, but then admitted he was trying to commit suicide, the affidavit said.

A woman in Indiana heading to a birthday party with her sister and a 6-year-old girl, as well as several others, allegedly killed the pair on the way there — flipping and rolling her SUV into a ditch — while driving at speeds over 100 mph, cops say.

Jourdan Hudson, 23, is accused of killing Nalani Ella Ervins, 6, and Jaiden Samaria Marquis Newbolt, 25, in November 2024 in a crash that left three others injured, including two children, according to the Allen County Sheriff’s Department.

A Texas man is behind bars for brutally killing his sister and his toddler niece earlier this week, police in the Lone Star State say.

Kendrick Rayvon Fisher, 29, stands accused of capital murder over the fatal stabbings that took the lives of the 28-year-old and 2-year-old victims in question, according to a press release issued by the Houston Police Department on Saturday.

The incident occurred sometime on Friday at a residence on Richmond Avenue in the west Houston neighborhood of Westchase.

“Officers were flagged down by a citizen who stated an adult female and child were being held hostage within an apartment,” the press release reads. “The citizen was concerned for their safety and told officers a male (suspect Fisher) was inside the apartment.”

A Pennsylvania man defending his sister was shot in the head and killed over the weekend by a man his family refers to as “the assassin.”

Kenito Montoya, 24, intervened in a domestic dispute between his sister and her ex-boyfriend during the early morning hours on Sunday, according to the Upper Darby Police Department.

Now, police are searching for a man presumed to still be armed with the same gun that took Montoya’s life.

A 22-year-old woman in North Carolina has been arrested for allegedly killing her 10-year-old sister, stabbing the child multiple times inside of their family home before dragging her body into the backyard. Kaneijah Zyir Bradley was taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with the murder of her younger sister, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office, deputies at about 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday responded to a residence located in the 2000 block of Beaverdam Road regarding a mother reporting her 10-year-old child missing.

Upon arriving at the scene, first responders learned that the girl’s mother had located the missing child in the backyard of the home. Deputies on the scene said the little girl “appeared to be deceased.”

“Further investigation revealed that the child had been stabbed multiple times and was in fact deceased,” the sheriff’s office wrote in the release. “Through investigation by Investigators, it is believed that the victim had been stabbed inside the home and moved outside to the rear of the home.”

Investigators quickly homed in on a suspect and placed Bradley under arrest for murder. She is currently being housed in the Halifax County Detention Center without bond. She is scheduled to appear in county district court on Jan. 25.

The sheriff’s office said that the motive for alleged attack “is unclear at this time” as the investigation remains ongoing. Authorities are asking anyone with information relevant to the case to contact Lieutenant R. Somogyi at (252) 583-8201.