16-Year-Old Is One of Three Dead in Yesterday’s Killings in Loleta

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Tribal Police yesterday at the entrance to the housing development where a triple homicide occurred. [Photo by Mark McKenna]

This is a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:

On Feb. 10, 2021, at about 8:12 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the 200 block of Carroll Road on the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria Reservation for the report of multiple victims with serious injuries discovered inside a residence.

Bear River Tribal Police Officers were first to arrive on scene and located two deceased victims- a male and a female- and a third victim with serious injuries inside the residence. The third victim, a female, was transported to a local hospital, where she later succumbed to her injuries. Officers also located two juveniles uninjured inside the residence. The juveniles were placed into safe custody.

The Humboldt County Major Crimes Task Force was activated and is investigating these three deaths as homicide. Cause of death for the victims is pending autopsy. Sheriff’s Investigators have identified a person of interest in this case, however, no arrests have been made at this time.

The victims have been identified as Nikki Dion Metcalf, age 40, Margarett Lee Moon, age 40, and Shelly Autumn Mae Moon, age 16. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office sends its deepest condolences to the family of these victims and to the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria Tribe as a whole.

The Sheriff’s Office acknowledges that sensitive case information has been shared across social media by community members. For case-integrity, we are unable to confirm information shared by any person or agency that is not directly assigned to and investigating this case. We ask the community to please use caution when sharing information from law enforcement radio frequencies due to this being information that rapidly evolves. We request the community to monitor official communications from the Sheriff’s Office for case updates. Any information outside of these channels could jeopardize the investigation.

The Sheriff’s Office is actively working with the Bear River Tribal Council and Law Enforcement to investigate this case. More information will be released when available and appropriate.

Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.

UPDATE: 18-Year-Old Suspect in Loleta Homicides Taken Into Custody in Utah; Two Others Detained

Earlier: Three Now Dead in Loleta Homicide

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Pike Mortar
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Pike Mortar
3 years ago

Bear River has a tribal police department? This is the first I’ve heard of such a thing.

suspence
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suspence
3 years ago
Reply to  Pike Mortar

I believe all Reservations have a tribal PD because they are outside US government jurisdiction.

Ice
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Ice
3 years ago
Reply to  suspence

Not all reservations can afford them.

Humboldt County Line
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Humboldt County Line
3 years ago
Reply to  suspence

Reservations aren’t outside jurisdiction in California due to PL 280. They are in Oregon though. It’s interesting which states are and aren’t PL 280 states and how different it is.

Chuck U
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Chuck U
3 years ago

My sympathies to the tribe and all individuals involved, no speculation needed from the chatter.

PennyC
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PennyC
3 years ago
Reply to  Chuck U

Well said Chuck.

Mike
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Mike
3 years ago
Reply to  PennyC

I’m having a hard time remembering another triple homicide in humboldts history, there was Shane Miller but that didn’t happen in humboldt.

Mendo Historian
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Mendo Historian
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

The genocide of indigenous people that took place in and around Humboldt County in the 1850-1870 make light of this senseless act of homicide. Look up Fort Humboldt Humboldt Volunteers, Indian Island Massacre etc

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago

I’m pretty sure Mike was referring to things relevant to modern conditions, not antiquarian whataboutism.

Mike
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Mike
3 years ago

Um, no? I’m talking about modern history not dragging up ancient history to seem relevant or woke. Let’s just narrow it down to the last half a century. That way we can leave out stagecoach robbery’s, witch trials, and feuds over a stolen hog.

thesteve4761
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thesteve4761
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Yes, let’s ignore genocide just because it makes Mike and Third Eye uncomfortable.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  thesteve4761

Mike has a good point about the massacres of over 150 years ago being about as relevant to what’s going on today as stagecoach robberies, settler feuds, steamers shipwrecked entering Humboldt Bay… Do you seriously think what happened 150-170 years ago in any way mitigate the horror of what just happened, or are you just seeing an opportunity for woke virtue signaling?

Branden Harder
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Branden Harder
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

This horror absolutely would not have taken place if the material conditions of native communities weren’t severely fucked and left severely fucked. This is what happens when kids grow up drinking lead-contaminated water, and children grow up drinking lead-contaminated water because of their material conditions. I get that economics is complicated, but even a conservative should be able to understand “stickiness at the edges”, an economic principle that states that groups will largely maintain their material conditions except for a small minority at the top and bottom of an income bracket. “Look, this one got out of the pit we threw you guys in” is literally stupid, and entitled.

Thesteve4761
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Thesteve4761
3 years ago
Reply to  Branden Harder

This. Exactly.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Branden Harder

Nonsense. The Rancheria is not Flint, Michigan. Materially, it resembles other rural subdivisions with modern housing and infrastructure and the casino generates income on top of the federal subsidies that recognized Tribes are legally entitled to. The ladder out of the pit has been available for quite some time and some Tribes (Yurok, for example) have used it quite effectively. Native corporations own the Arcata Hotel, the Carson building, and a chunk of Trinidad harbor. Sundberg Construction is a thriving local native-owned contractor.

Resting on grievance is a stupid and entitled copout and a diversion from the real issues that hold some Tribes back.

Branden Harder
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Branden Harder
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

Two points:

1. The behavioral effects of lead exposure are due to consistent exposure and build up, not acute poisoning, you don’t take a swig and then turn into a crazy person. If they developed new shoulder pads and helmets that totally prevented brain damage in football, would that fix any of the brain damage that has already occurred? Do lawyers need to cease making the successful legal argument that brain-damaged athletes shouldn’t be held as accountable for their crimes as somebody who hadn’t suffered that physical trauma? The child who committed the murders came from the old res, so those conditions should be considered, however I’d like to note that the water situation has been pretty similarly dire for both reservations for my entire life. The fact of the matter is, this tragedy is explainable by lead exposure, and that occurred because the tribes lacked the means to provide fresh drinking water.

2. You’re obfuscating the point. I assure you that we’re very grateful to have roofs above our heads, but that has nothing to do with the problems our community faces. You can’t say “Shut up and enjoy those walls” when somebody complains about not having drinking water. We don’t need to resemble Flint, Michigan in literally any way other than lead having similar pharmacological effects to us as it does them. And it’s nice that there are native-owned businesses, and that helps at a sociological level, but at a personal level, I wouldn’t tell a struggling family or a hungry child “Hey, I know that you’re hungry, but look, these other natives are doing great!”. This seems very similar to me to the lie of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”, which is to say that all economic disparity is just because the 1% of people on the edges manage to trade places (and back) generationally with their counterparts that are just barely more wealthy than them.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

Here’s a water quality report for the Rancheria from 2016. Where’s the lead problem?

http://www.brb-nsn.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2015-CCR-Tish-Non-Village-605119.pdf

Young Mauricio’s evil turn couldn’t have had anything to do with bad upbringing. You know, from the mom who hooked up with a criminal on the lam and tried to help her son escape justice after three people were murdered. Or a pattern of violence and bullying that others have observed in the Johnson kids. It must be the water.

Branden Harder
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Branden Harder
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

1. He grew up on the old res, and I said that.
2. We JUST had a scare about lead contamination in the water within the last several months.
3. It’s important to consider the factors involved, we’ll never get anywhere useful by chalking anything up to a good vs. evil narrative.

J
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J
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Shane Miller was born and died in Humboldt so it was a Humboldt raised Murder suicide.

First 48
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First 48
3 years ago

Sheriff’s Investigators have identified a person of interest in this case, ( whose name they chose not to release,) but anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call.

Good old Humboldt Time.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  First 48

Let’s hope they can move on it before something else bad happens.

Roses
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Roses
3 years ago

So young, terribly sad, RIP 🙏🏼

Fummins
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Fummins
3 years ago

The suspect was seen in Auburn Ca, yesterday fyi.

Loleta Local
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Loleta Local
3 years ago

Hi Kim, was the original police report incorrect. It indicated one male was found deceased. We have three female victims listed. Living in Loleta, should the public be concerned about a killer on the loose?

loleta local
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loleta local
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

my bad. Sounds like they arrested the suspect. tragic. I knew that kid.

J
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J
3 years ago

Isn’t Nikki supposed to be in prison for murder?

Joy
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Joy
3 years ago
Reply to  J

No need to worry about that, Leave it alone!

Fast Freddy
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Fast Freddy
3 years ago

What a sad situation. I hope the Moons can start getting the help they so desperately need.

Mike
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Mike
3 years ago

Word is they got the suspect in custody.

[edit]
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[edit]
3 years ago

It was Maury Johnson a little punk that thinks he is hard

loleta local
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loleta local
3 years ago
Reply to  [edit]

the Johnson kids have been terrorizing Loleta school for at least a couple generations.

Joy
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Joy
3 years ago
Reply to  loleta local

If you dont know who our family really is and exactly what we been through then leave our family the fuck up out your mouths, touchy subject!

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Joy

Is “what we been through” supposed to somehow excuse what just happened? If your family has the reputation it apparently has, and one of your own has just committed a triple murder, that should tell you that there is a problem you are responsible to take care of instead of ranting against those who notice the problem. Your family’s future, your call. Decide who you are and who you are going to be. Now.

Nobody
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Nobody
3 years ago
Reply to  loleta local

He was a good kid u all don’t no the shit there family’s been threw ya it was a fucked up thing but look how everybody likes to put people dawn I feel terrible for all my heart breaks for them I loved that boy it’s just a very fucked up thing but u all shouldn’t talk shit about people over hear say he was a good boy something set him off I just don’t understand an dame she was to young an those poor baby’s left behind I hope there in a safe an loving place

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  loleta local

I’m privy to information from within the Loleta school of how resistant some parents are to having any standards or accountability for their children, and having a victim mentality over those issues, with the result that problems grow until things are completely out of control. We seem to be seeing that same mentality here.

Nick
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Nick
3 years ago

“Officers also located two juveniles uninjured inside the residence”
I hope they weren’t in there long. That is terrible.

Joy
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Joy
3 years ago

If you dont know who our family really is and exactly what we been through then leave our family out your mouths, touchy subject!

Fast Freddy
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Fast Freddy
3 years ago
Reply to  Joy

Stop it. Don’t kill people and act like idiots, then there isn’t much to talk about. If you’re going to act like trash, people will point that out, regardless what you’ve put your kids and family through. Now everyone suffers because of your families bullshit and weak leadership.

Nobody
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Nobody
3 years ago
Reply to  Fast Freddy

Why do u all have to talk shit where supposed to b there for each other an all anybody does anymore is talk shit why try to hurt people when there all hurting already if u have nothing nice to say than keep it to ur self what good role models where all being

Bear river rsive
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Bear river rsive
3 years ago

Noone listened to jesse armstrong

Shit show
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Shit show
3 years ago

About what? Jesse is a good smart human being. I see no reason why anyone would have any reason to ignore anything he says.
There was people who didn’t listen and now there ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAD?
That’s really disappointing to hear. I don’t even know him personally like that and I would likely take his word. Especially when it comes to something like this.

Loleta Resident
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Loleta Resident
3 years ago

That isn’t “Hard” he is just a little punk [edit]! Word is he only did it on the Rez wouldn’t go outside of those boundaries!!!!
I feel so sorry for all the people involved, no one should have to bury a young girl let alone mom and stepdad. Bear River Rancheria may you heal soon 🙏
It’s hard enough to have to live on any Rez, All of them have trouble, do some research folks !!!! Loleta you are some what safer from what people this child out of control .

Personal Responsibility
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Personal Responsibility
3 years ago

At any tine people can always choose to change their lives and move off the reservation where all the trouble is. Take personal responsibility for your self.