RAPID CITY, South Dakota, Aug. 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota, Alison J. Ramsdell, issued the following news release:

United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a federal grand jury has indicted a Manderson, South Dakota, man for Second Degree Murder.

Sequoyah Mark West, Jr., age 29, was indicted in June of 2023. He appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Daneta Wollmann on August 4, 2023, and pleaded not guilty to the Indictment.