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    Dion N. Bordeaux Sentenced to LWOP in 2020 SD Murder of Jeanette Jumping Eagle





    Rapid City man indicted for murder in fatal shooting

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    RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a Rapid City man on a first-degree murder charge in a shooting that investigators say was staged to look like a suicide.

    Dion Bordeaux, 25, is accused of fatally shooting Jeanette Jumping Eagle, 22, in Rapid City last January. Police found the victim with a gunshot wound to the head on New Year’s Day.

    Bordeaux was one of two men in the room at the time of the shooting, investigators said. He was arrested on an unrelated warrant and has remained in custody.

    Police say “multiple forensic avenues” led them to believe Bordeaux was responsible for the woman’s death. The evidence was presented to the Pennington County States Attorney’s Office and then submitted to a grand jury which issued the indictment.

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    Rapid City brothers plead not guilty to murder, accessory charges

    Rapid City brothers have pleaded not guilty to murder and accessory charges related to the killing of a young mother.

    Jeanette Jumping Eagle, a 22-year-old from Rapid City, was found shot dead in a hotel room on New Years Day, but her death wasn’t ruled a homicide until months later because it had originally been made to look like a suicide, police say.

    Dion Bordeaux, a 25-year-old from Rapid City, was indicted on a charge of 1st-degree murder last month, while his 24-year-old brother Giovanni was indicted for being an accessory.

    Giovanni pleaded not guilty Oct. 5 at the Pennington County Courthouse while Dion pleaded not guilty on Monday before 3 of Jumping Eagle’s loved ones.

    The 3 women wore matching T-shirts with a photograph of Jumping Eagle and black face masks with the red hand print symbolizing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

    If convicted, Giovanni faces up to 5 years in prison while Dion would receive the death penalty or life in prison without parole.

    Giovanni is detained at the Pennington County Jail on a $50,000 surety bond while Dion has a $1 million cash-only bond. Dion will be transferred back to prison where he’s serving time for an aggravated assault out of Lincoln County, a judge said Monday.

    When police found Jumping Eagle they learned that Dion and one other man had been in the room at the time of the shooting, according to an earlier news release from the police department. Police found Dion and arrested him for an existing warrant.

    “During the course of the investigation, police recovered evidence to suggest the shooting scene had been staged to appear as a suicide,” the release said. “By exploring multiple forensic avenues, it was determined that Dion Bordeaux was responsible for the shooting.”

    Giovanni is accused of helping his brother evade prosecution through 2 theories: “by obstructing anyone by force, intimidation or deception” or by “concealing, destroying or altering any physical evidence," according to his indictment.

    Jumping Eagle had 3 young boys with Brent Waters, who she had been dating since she was 14, according to her sister Paulina Ghost. Waters and his mother are now raising the children with the help of other relatives.

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    Rapid City man accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend is headed to trial in 2023

    By Humberto Giles-Sanchez
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    RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) - Police were called to the Microtel Inn & Suites on January 1, 2020, regarding a woman who had a gunshot wound, initially thought to be a suicide, later to find out it was a homicide.

    Jeanette Jumping Eagle was pronounced dead at the scene. According to the officers, it was discovered that two other individuals were in the room around the time the shooting happened. One of those individuals was Dion Bordeaux, 25 at that time.

    According to police, during the initial investigation, they were able to recover evidence that hinted at the crime scene being staged to make it look like a suicide. After further forensic investigations, they determined that Bordeaux was the one responsible for the shooting, and his older brother, Giovanni Bordeaux, 24 at the time, was charged with being an accessory to the crime.

    Fast forward almost three years later, the evidential hearing that was held on Wednesday, brought Dion Bordeaux, now 27, up to the stand to see if the court could work out a trial date with all of the evidence that they have collected.

    In court on Wednesday Bordeaux’s attorney talked about blood splatter evidence in the case, saying they will want to provide their own expert to analyze the evidence and that the blood splatter expert provided by the state did not meet the qualifications for the analysis. Otherwise, Bordeaux’s attorney had no other objections to the experts the state brought up.

    The trial date is scheduled to begin May 30 and run through June 9.

    https://www.blackhillsfox.com/2022/1...ed-trial-2023/
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    June 6, 2023

    Man convicted of murdering girlfriend on New Year's Day 2020

    By Shalom Baer Gee
    Rapid City Journal

    After eight-and-a-half hours of deliberation Monday, a Pennington County jury found 28-year-old Dion Bordeaux guilty of first-degree murder for killing his girlfriend on New Year's Day in 2020.

    When the jury foreperson stood up and said “guilty of first-degree murder,” the victim’s family began to sob. Tears from Bordeaux’s supporters followed shortly after.

    Jeanette Jumping Eagle, a 22-year-old mother of three, died from a single bullet to the head on Jan. 1, 2020, in a room at the Microtel Hotel in north Rapid City. Her bloody hand rested on top of her 9mm pistol, which sat in her lap with the safety on.

    Initially, law enforcement didn’t know if she died by suicide or homicide. About eight months later, the state charged Bordeaux, who was one of two people in the room other than Jumping Eagle.

    The state also originally charged Bordeaux’s younger brother, Giovanni Bordeaux, with accessory to a crime as well. The state dropped those charges. He later agreed to testify.

    Giovanni said the three were drinking together on New Year's Eve. The couple was bickering, and he thought they were breaking up. He asked coworkers to come pick him up because of the “awkward” situation.

    Giovanni said he was in the bathroom when he heard the gunshot. When he came out, he heard his brother “freaking out” and saying “babe” several times. When he asked Bordeaux what happened, he said “I don’t know” several times.

    Deputy Pennington County State’s Attorney Kevin Krull said Giovanni, “is trying to protect his brother” by saying he didn’t see the gun or see whether Dion moved Jumping Eagle’s arm.

    Video footage showed the two walking away from the hotel room just after 3:30 a.m. Bordeaux called 911 from the Runnings parking lot on North Lacrosse Street, about a half mile away from the hotel. Giovanni had coworkers pick him up across the street at Walgreens and bring him back to the hotel.

    Bordeaux initially told law enforcement he ran from the room when he heard the gunshot because he thought Jumping Eagle shot at him. About two weeks later, he told Rapid City Police Department Detective Dan Trainer that Jumping Eagle shot herself, and he tried to help her. He then washed his hands in the hotel sink and left the hotel room before deciding to call 911.

    Krull called his statements “self-serving” and “contradictory” during closing arguments Monday morning, which followed three days of testimony. He noted testimony during the trial from a blood splatter expert who said Jumping Eagle’s arm had been moved after she was shot.

    The expert, Paulette Sutton, traveled from Tennessee to testify in the trial. Sutton said the blood on Jumping Eagle’s hand and the gun were “transfer” stains, meaning they resulted from a bloody surface touching a non-bloody surface. Sutton explained other types of stains include drip-stains and pools.

    Krull emphasized the angle of the bullet when arguing for a guilty verdict. Don Habbe, a forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Jumping Eagle, testified the bullet entered above her right eyebrow from a slightly upward angle in a straight path. It did not exit her head.

    Habbe said the gun was not pressed against her skin, which is common in suicides. He also testified he could not determine if the death was a suicide or a homicide, but most suicide gunshot wounds occur in the temple, under the chin, or in the mouth.

    “This doesn’t fit a suicide,” Krull said.

    The attorney also compared an incident in September 2019 when Bordeaux stabbed a friend nine times. The man’s girlfriend took the stand during trial and testified to witnessing the stabbing.

    Krull said it was similar because Bordeaux had been drinking, grabbed a weapon, and attacked someone he knew.

    Angela Colbath, Bordeaux’s defense attorney, called Jumping Eagle’s death a “tragedy” and alluded to the possibility someone other than Bordeaux could have turned the safety on.

    Colbath pointed to inconsistent testimony about what happened with the gun. Forensic Examiner Bincy Thankachan testified she placed the gun inside an evidence bag at the scene before removing the magazine or unloading the gun.

    Rapid City Police Department Det. Justin Gizzy testified he attempted to rack the slide of the gun back at the scene, only to discover it wouldn’t move because the safety was on.

    Colbath told the jury the state wanted them to believe it was a “small inconsistency.”

    “I don’t know who took that firearm, and the bottom line is you don’t either,” Colbath said.

    While the state said Bordeaux’s actions didn’t line up with someone who had just witnessed their girlfriend commit suicide, Colbath argued otherwise.

    She said if Bordeaux wanted to cover up a murder, he wouldn’t have touched Bordeaux, getting blood on his hands. She also noted Bordeaux called the cops, told police what he was wearing, and left behind Jumping Eagle’s cell phone, which contained a text message where he threatened to kill her.

    Colbath argued if Bordeaux had been serious with the threat, he wouldn’t have left behind evidence of it. She also stated her client's actions made sense in a state of “shock and fear,” and he left the scene initially because he was afraid no one would believe him.

    “Apparently his feeling that he wouldn’t be believed was right,” Colbath said.

    A sentencing date is pending for Bordeaux, but first-degree murder carries a mandatory life sentence in South Dakota.

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    Rapid City man sentenced to life in prison

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    RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) - 28-year-old Dion Bordeaux of Rapid City is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole today in Seventh Circuit.

    Court Bordeaux was convicted in June of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 22-year-old Jeanette Jumping Eagle at a Rapid City motel on January 1st, 2020. Jumping Eagle’s aunt read a statement from the victim’s mother, saying not only did Bordeaux take away her life that day but his own as well. Bordeaux chose to not address the court today but his attorney said Bordeaux wishes to maintain his innocence.

    Judge Robert Mandel said nothing will ever be right for the family especially with Bordeaux not taking responsibility for his actions.

    Police said earlier that the shooting was originally staged as a suicide.

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