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Plea Agreement Reached In Standing Rock Reservation Killing

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A plea agreement has been reached in the killing of a woman on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

Thirty-year-old Lance Summers pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder in the death last year of 38-year-old Natalie White Lightening of Cannon Ball.

The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison but the plea deal calls for 10 years.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland told Summers he would not make any promises whether he would accept the deal. Sentencing has been set for November.

White Lightening was last seen by friends on March 17, 2014 and her body was discovered more than a month later by two people walking through a field on the 2.3 million-acre reservation that straddles North Dakota and South Dakota.

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