Justin Little Hawk, a 40-year-old Native American man, was shot in Pine Ridge, South Dakota on November 22, 2020, and died the following month at a hospital in Colorado. Accounts of the shooting differ: some reports said a dispute at the North Ridge Housing complex escalated, while relatives later described an ambush in which Little Hawk was driving two teenage family members when a shooter entered the vehicle and fired as the teens fled.

Investigators focused on Phillip Pond of Rapid City. Federal prosecutors said a grand jury indicted Pond on second-degree murder and a firearm offense tied to a crime of violence; authorities involved included the FBI and the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety. Pond appeared in federal court in early March 2021 and pleaded not guilty, and reporting said he had turned himself in at a police station in Chadron, Nebraska before being brought back to South Dakota.

Later reporting from mid-2021 said prosecutors dropped the murder charge and pursued gun-related counts; Pond represented himself at a short trial and a jury acquitted him of the firearm crimes on May 27, 2021. Despite the indictment and trial, no conviction on the murder allegation resulted. If anyone knew Justin, witnessed the shooting, or has information about that night on North Ridge, share what is known.