A Native American was arrested in connection to the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old boy on a Colorado reservation earlier this month.
Jeremiah Hight, 23, was arrested on Christmas Eve over the killing of Zamias Lang who was fatally shot at his Ute Mountain Reservation on Dec. 11.
In a video message addressed to the community, Tribal Chairman Manuel Heart announced the child’s death asking his loved ones not to seek retaliation.
“The event that happened last night was senseless. An adult made a decision to do something to harm another person. This person was a child,” he said.
“We ask our tribal members, family members not to retaliate as has been mentioned by some people,”
“It may be somebody might have said that I’m going to go out and do this. I ask you to hold on. Let us go through the process that we have in place through our justice system.”
Hight’s arrest came after a manhunt that started on Dec. 21 as authorities offered $10,000 in reward for information leading to his location.
