The Latest: Prosecutor: Man helped kill pregnant Fargo woman
Source: Associated Press
Updated 11:37 am CDT, Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Photo: Michael Vosburg, AP
William Hoehn, right, participates in jury selection for his trial with defense attorney Daniel Borgen, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, in district court, in Fargo, N.D., for the murder of Savanna Greywind, a 22-year-old whose baby was cut from her womb. (Michael Vosburg/The Forum via AP, Pool)
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a man charged in the killing of a pregnant North Dakota woman (all times local):
11:30 a.m.
A prosecutor says a man accused in the death of a North Dakota woman who bled to death when her baby was cut from her womb helped finish the crime.
William Hoehn charged with helping to kill Savanna Greywind, who was eight months pregnant when she was killed in August 2017.
Hoehn's girlfriend, Brooke Crews, pleaded guilty in the case and is serving life in prison without parole. Hoehn says he knew nothing of Crews' plan to kill Greywind.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/The-Latest-Prosecutor-Man-helped-kill-pregnant-13241488.php
The search for Savanna Greywind
How her story brought national attention to missing and murdered Native American women
Diane Newberry, News Editor
September 12, 2017
Kyle Zimmerman/Dakota Student
A makeshift memorial to Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind outside the apartment where she lived
with her parents in Fargo, N.D. has flowers, a painting, candle and stuffed animal on Aug. 28,
2017. (Dave Kolpack/Associated Press)
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If the Sjodin murder had hit home for Souvannasacd as an undergrad, 22 year-old Savanna Greywind’s disappearance was even more emotional for her as the current American Indian Student Services Program Coordinator. Greywind was a dual member of the Spirit Lake Sioux Nation and the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Souvannasacd’s own tribe. The fact that Greywind was also eight months pregnant when she disappeared particularly resonated with Souvannasacd, a mother of three.
Although she and her husband are both graduate students with full time jobs and three kids, Souvannasacd did what she had to do to get down to Fargo and help with the search. She was certainly not alone.
Souvannasacd said the search “was a community effort,” and that the search effort she was involved in was coordinated by a tribal entity that regularly organizes searches for missing persons. Unfortunately, it seems to the Native American community that these searches have to be organized all too often.
In a recent report by the FBI, Ken Gonzales, a District Judge in New Mexico, said “It’s widely known that Native American women suffer violent crime at a rate three and a half times greater than the national average. One third of all Native American women will be raped in their lifetimes.”
More:
https://dakotastudent.com/10789/news/the-search-for-savanna-greywind/
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