On the evening of June 26, 2023, 36-year-old Marlon White-Eyes, a Native American man, was shot and later died after an altercation near 14th Street and Ingleside Avenue in Sioux City, Iowa. An argument inside an apartment involving Yasin Ahmed Abdi and three other men escalated; Abdi reportedly pointed a handgun at White-Eyes before White-Eyes closed the apartment door. The disturbance moved outside, where a separate fight involved Abdi’s group and two other people. White-Eyes, who was not part of that second fight, approached the scene and was struck four times when Abdi fired seven shots.

White-Eyes was taken to MercyOne hospital in critical condition and later died of his wounds. Sioux City police reviewed surveillance footage and interviewed witnesses, including two men who had been with Abdi; a warrant for Abdi’s arrest was issued June 29 and he was taken into custody June 30. Abdi was charged with first-degree murder; the prosecution described the shooting as premeditated while the defense said Abdi fired in self-defense when White-Eyes approached his friends. The jury found Abdi guilty of first-degree murder and he received a life sentence without parole.

Are there details about White-Eyes life or the events that night that anyone can add to help clarify what happened?