Reganne Reshonda Chekpa, a 20-year-old woman from Saint Francis, South Dakota, was a Sicangu Lakota community member whose life ended in violence on August 9, 2020. That day, what should have been the safety of home became the setting for a fatal encounter—one that would leave her family grieving and her community speaking her name alongside others lost to the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people.
Federal authorities later described the night as beginning with a visit. Accor
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