OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – A invoice aimed toward serving to resolve circumstances of lacking and murdered indigenous individuals was signed into regulation by Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday. In the meantime, the household of a lacking, indigenous Anadarko girl is looking for solutions.
“She simply disappeared,” Chelsey Hunter informed KFOR on Tuesday.
Hunter is speaking about her 19-year-old sister, Sierra Hunter, who disappeared again on April third.
“We’re terrified and we simply need her house,” she mentioned.
Hunter mentioned the final time she heard from Sierra, it was again on April eighth when she obtained a horrifying telephone name from her.
“She began screaming,” mentioned Hunter. “She simply mentioned ‘all the pieces will likely be okay, I like you’ and the telephone simply disconnected.”
Chelsey informed KFOR she reported it to Andarko police and that telephone quantity was traced to a person in Austin, Texas.
“He’s a two-time intercourse offender, lengthy record of felonies,” mentioned Hunter. “On Saturday evening, the Austin Police Division had known as and mentioned that murder detectives at the moment are investigating it.”
Nevertheless, KFOR contacted Austin police and officers from APD despatched the next assertion:
“We’ve an energetic lacking grownup case that we’re presently investigating. We aren’t investigating this case as a murder as we should not have any credible info to recommend a murder. Sierra Hunter was final identified to be within the Austin space. As a result of the truth that she was capable of journey a substantial distance it’s potential she is now not within the Austin space. Detectives are within the area as we communicate actively investigating.”
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On Tuesday, Stitt signed Senate Invoice 172, Ida’s Regulation, into regulation.
The invoice permits the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to coordinate with the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace and the U.S. Division of Justice to acquire federal funding and coordinate efforts to handle the difficulty of lacking and murdered indigenous individuals in Oklahoma.
The measure is called after 29-year-old Ida Beard from El Reno, a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, who went lacking in 2015 and has by no means been discovered.
“Excited to get that throughout the end line. They’ve been engaged on it for a pair years,” Stitt mentioned. “It’s simply an vital piece of laws.”
The invoice takes impact on November 1st.
Nevertheless, Hunter is hoping for some solutions lengthy earlier than that date.
“She is at risk and there was one thing fallacious every time she known as me,” she mentioned.
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