On the morning of November 7, 2024, 32-year-old Josiah Worth Small — known as Josey or Josey Wales — was shot on a rural dirt road south of Billings, Montana. Deputies from the Yellowstone County Sheriff’s Office were sent to the 7900 block of Cormier Road after Small called to report he had been shot; he was found alive but later died from his injuries. Authorities opened a homicide investigation and asked the public for anyone who saw suspicious activity on Cormier Road around the time of the shooting.

Josiah, a resident of Lame Deer who also spent time in Billings, was born November 24, 1991, and is remembered by family as a spirited, entertaining person who carried the losses of siblings Tyrel and Taezha with him. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests announced.

Did anyone in the Billings or Prior area see anything on Cormier Road that morning?