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Suspects indicted in Harrah killing
YAKIMA -- Two men pleaded innocent Wednesday in U.S. District Court to assault charges related to last month's fatal beating of a man near Harrah.
A grand jury on Tuesday indicted Lance Frank, 34, and Johnathon Frank, 19, on a charge of assault resulting in serious injury or death in connection with the death of Daniel Simmons.
Simmons, a 42-year-old member of the Quinault Indian Nation on the Washington coast, was killed outside Harrah.
Charges against a third man initially accused in the beatings were dropped earlier this week.
Authorities say the men -- both members of the Yakama Nation -- beat Simmons to death during a brawl in the middle of Harrah Road on July 10.
The case is being pursued in federal court because all the men who were allegedly involved are Native Americans and because the incident took place on a county road on the reservation.
Yakima County sheriff's detectives, who helped investigate the case, say Simmons and the suspects lived near each other and were involved in a running feud.
DO THE DETECTEVES WHO ARE INVESTIGATING THE CASE KNOW THAT THESE MEN WHO TOOK A LIFE WERE ALSO THE VERY SAME PEOPLE WHO TRIED TO KILL MR. SIMMONS BEFORE BY BURNING HIS HOME DOWN? THE SO CALLED "ON GOING FEUD" WHERE WERE THE POLICE THEN? COME ON CALL IT WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS, LOOK INTO THESE "INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY" ON GOING PAST WHICH WAS AT THE TIME OF MR. SIMMONS DEATH WAS A WAY OF LIVING FOR THE "FRANK" BROTHERS, WHO TORMENTED MANY, MANY INNOCENT VICTIMS IN THEIR DEMENTED MINDS WHO THOUGHT IT WAS "FUN" THEY HAD NOTHING BETTER TO DO BUT TERRORIZE THEIR VICTIMS, THE FRANK BOYS COULDN'T EVEN HOLD A JOB. PEOPLE COME FORWARD AND TESTIFY AGAINST THE ACCUSED, DON'T LET MR. SIMMONDS DEATH BE FOR NOTHING. MANY HARRAH RESIDENTS WERE AFRIAD OF THESE "FRANK BOYS" AS THEY WERE CALLED. HOW COULD THIS BE CALLED AND ON GOING FEUD WHEN THE FRANK'S WERE THE ONE WHO IN A PACK, WOULD GO OUT TO PURPOSELY HURT MR. SIMMONS. FOR WHAT? MINDING HIS OWN BUSINESS. AS FOR THE YAKAMA POLICE, HOW MANY TIMES WERE YOU ALL CALLED OUT TO THE FRANK RESIDENT BUT REFUSED TO DO ANYTHING BECAUSE OF THE "DOGS"? YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
DO THE RIGHT THING AND STEP FORWARD AND TESTIFY AGAINST THESE MENACE TO SOCIETY WHO HAD NOTHING BETTER TO DO BUT CAUSE HARM TO WHOM EVER, LIKE A PACK OF WILD DOGS IN THE ANIMAL WORLD WOULD DO, "KILL THEIR PRAY IN NUMBERS" COME ON PEOPLE OF HARRAH YOU KNOW THAT BECAUSE OF MR. SIMMONS'S DEATH YOUR TOWN HAS BECOME A SAFER PLACE TO LIVE. WHY WAS THE THIRD SUSPECT RELEASED? THEY WERE ALL THERE, WEATHER PARTICIPATING OR NOT IN THE DEATH OF MR. SIMMONS.
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