An active service aviator was arrested on Friday for allegedly killing a 21 -year -old woman at an air base in Dakota del Sur, according to the Pennington County Sheriff’s office.
Quinterrius Chappelle, 24, an active duty aviator parked at the base of the Ellsworth Air Force in Dakota del Sur, faces second -degree murder charges for allegedly killing Sahela Sangrait, 21, said the Sheriff’s office in a statement On Saturday.
On March 4, a hiker discovered bleeding body in a place south of Hill City, South Dakota, near the Pennington County line and Cluster County.
Lack of service Sahela Sangrait was last seen at the Ellsworth Air Force base in Rapid City, SD
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The authorities said the human remains were “bad decomponed”, and that the body was later identified as bleeding, which had been disappeared since August 10, 2024.
It was known that Sanglit stayed with a friend at Eagle Butte, South Dakot Poster of missing people Shared on Facebook.
The authorities determined that bleeding was killed at the Air Base. The relationship between Chappelle and bleeds has not yet been clear.
“This investigation has been an excellent collaboration of the Local, State and Federal Law Agencies in our area to include the Sheriff’s Office of the Pennington County, the Rapid City Police Department, the Southern Dakota Criminal Investigation Division, the Office of Indigenous Affairs disappeared and killed by the Federal Investigation Investigation Unit and the Office of Special Investigations of the United States Air Force,” said the United States Office Sheriff in a statement.
The suspect is arrested in the Pennington County prison and no bond has been established, according to prison records. It is not yet clear if Chappelle has legal representation.
Chappelle entered the service in April 2019 and worked as an aircraft inspection officer, according to the Ellsworth Air Force base.
Ellsworth Air Force Base in Rapid City, SD
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The “thoughts and prayers of the base are with the friends and family of Sahela,” Colonel Derek Oakley, the 28th bomb -wing commander in Ellsworth. He added that they are working closely with the law enforcement agencies.
“We respond to aviators for their actions, and if the members of the service are in violation of military or civil law, they will be punished,” Oakley said in a statement to ABC News.
The case will be prosecuted by the Office of the United States prosecutor, said the Sheriff’s office.
Any person with additional information related to Bleeding’s murder must communicate with the FBI office of Rapid City at 605-343-9632.
