On the evening of October 5, 2018, 16-year-old Laramie Jayne Moffett was fatally shot at her family’s home in Nowata, Oklahoma. A noted barrel racer and active member of the National Barrel Horse Association, Nowata Round-Up Club, and FFA, she had alerted her mother, Amanda Moffett, that a stray dog was attacking kittens outside. Amanda went onto the front porch with a handgun and fired into the dark to scare off the animal; Laramie was in the line of fire and was struck by the bullet. Laramie, born August 14, 2002, died from the gunshot wound.

Amanda Moffett was arrested and initially charged in Nowata County District Court; that state charge was dismissed on jurisdictional grounds because Amanda is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. The matter was later handled federally. In a plea filed nearly five years after the shooting, Amanda admitted she had not verified her daughter’s location before firing and pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country. She remained on supervised release pending sentencing and faced up to eight years in federal prison. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, and the Nowata County Sheriff’s Office investigated the death.

Does anyone have information about Laramie’s last night or the events leading up to the shooting that could shed more light on what happened?