Rachel Noel Sapohoors Johnson, 36, was killed on November 21, 2015, inside her family’s home in Fort Washakie on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Investigators said a domestic fight over pain medication escalated into a shooting. Federal filings identified her husband, Koby Dean Johnson, as the shooter and said children in the home witnessed critical moments; three of the couple’s children were reported to have seen him shoot her while pinning her down on the bedroom floor.

Prosecutors charged Koby Dean Johnson with first-degree murder. A federal judge found probable cause and ordered him held in custody. The case went to a federal jury in Casper in June 2016, which returned guilty verdicts for first-degree murder and a separate firearm-related count for causing death with a firearm. On August 26, 2016, U.S. District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced him to two consecutive life terms, plus a fine and special assessment. The husband was the only person arrested, charged, convicted, and sentenced in the case.