Sherry Wounded Foot, a 50-year-old Native American woman of the Oglala Sioux tribe, was found unconscious behind the Lakota HOPE Ministry building in Whiteclay, Nebraska, on August 5, 2016. Initially not suspected as an assault, she was taken to a hospital on the Pine Ridge Reservation where a seizure prompted further imaging that showed internal bleeding in her head. She was airlifted to Rapid City for emergency brain surgery but never regained consciousness.

Twelve days after being found, on August 17, 2016, her family removed life support and she died; blunt force trauma to the head was listed as the cause of death and her death was ruled a possible homicide. The Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office and Nebraska State Patrol handled the investigation. Family members say law enforcement did not take the case seriously. Investigators have considered domestic violence and a reported altercation with another woman the day before she was found. No arrests have been announced and the murder remains unsolved. Her daughter later sued the federal government alleging negligence by the initial ambulance service and hospital staff.

Did anyone in Whiteclay or the Pine Ridge area know Sherry or see her the day before she was found?