Lukas Dudley was 28 and a member of the Turtle Clan from Bemidji, Minnesota. A father of three with a fiancée, he worked as a logger and was remembered by family for his love of the outdoors, hunting, fishing, and cooking. He was raised in Red Lake and graduated from Bemidji High School in 2010.

On the evening of November 25, 2020, Dudley was deer hunting in Nebish Township near the Red Lake Reservation boundary in Beltrami County. Around dusk another hunter, 33-year-old Rain Stately of Redby, saw movement about 200 yards away, mistook it for a deer, and fired one round that struck Dudley. The men were not hunting together. Stately called 911 and cooperated with investigators; Dudley was not wearing high-visibility blaze orange.

The Beltrami County Attorney filed second-degree manslaughter charges against Stately. The investigation involved county, tribal, state and federal agencies and the case was moving through the legal system as of the filing. Did anyone in the Nebish Township area see hunting activity that evening or have information about the shooting?