This woman apparently lost any semblance of sanity during a tribal eviction. Luckily one of the victims escaped and ran to the police station. Residents of the city Alturas are in shock, as this type of crime had been unheard of prior to this massacre. Read the article below for more details...
An eviction hearing at
an American Indian headquarters in North California turned bloody when a former
tribal leader went berserk, killing four people and wounding two others, cops
said.
Cherie Lash Rhoades,
former chairwoman of Cedarville Rancheria, allegedly shot four people during
the in the tribal office and a fifth person who tried to escape the mayhem.
After running out of
bullets the bloodthirsty woman allegedly grabbed a butcher knife and stabbed a
person.
The suspect was
“systematically shooting individuals,” Barnes said.
“This is like nothing I
have had to deal with in my 25 years of being with the city of Alturas. It's
just tragic.”
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Rhoades herself was a
former Rancheria tribal leader. The current leader was among the dead,
authorities said.
When cops arrived on the
scene Thursday afternoon Rhoades was running around in front of the building
with the knife still in her hands, Alturas police chief Ken Barnes said.
A Rancheria employee
helped tackle her and she was taken into custody, Barnes said. She faces murder
and attempted murder charges.
The four dead include a
19-year-old woman, a 30-year-old man, a 45-year-old woman and a 50-year-old
man.
Barnes said one of the
dead victims is the tribe's leader.
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The two victims who
survived the attack were in critical condition.
One victim, who had been
shot at least four or five times and possibly stabbed, was out of surgery and
in an intensive care unit, Barnes said. The other victim, who was shot once,
was recovering after surgery.
The bloodshed began
during a tribal meeting about evicting Rhoades and her son from her home at the
Rancheria, which is in remote northeastern California, about 30 miles south of
the Oregon border.
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