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    Cherie Lash-Rhoades - California Death Row


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    Ousted tribal leader charged with 4 murder counts

    By JEFF BARNARD
    The Associated Press

    Court documents say a California undersheriff responding to reports of a shooting at a tiny Indian tribe's headquarters arrived to find an ousted tribal leader stabbing someone in the parking lot.

    A criminal complaint filed Monday in Modoc County Superior Court charges former Cedarville Rancheria chairwoman Cherie Lash Rhoades with four counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder. She is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday.

    District Attorney Jordan Funk says prosecutors will seek the death penalty because four people were killed in the knife and gun attack in Alturas, Calif.

    A declaration of probable cause says Modoc County Undersheriff Ken Richardson saw Rhodes stabbing one of the victims in the headquarters parking lot, and he handcuffed her after another person tackled her.

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    Tribe's lawyer: Eviction related to missing funds

    By JEFF BARNARD
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    A woman accused of killing four people, including three of her relatives, at a tiny American Indian tribe's Northern California headquarters had been evicted from tribal housing because she was suspected of stealing from the tribe, the tribe's lawyer said Monday.

    Cedarville Rancheria attorney Jack Duran said Cherie Lash Rhoades was suspended as tribal chairwoman just three weeks before the gun and knife attack, pending a federal investigation into allegations that she embezzled at least $50,000 in federal grant money.

    Rhoades' son, Jack Stockton, was ousted as vice chairman and evicted from tribal housing on the same grounds, Duran told The Associated Press.

    Stockton was not at Thursday's hearing when the shooting broke out. He does not have a listed phone number.

    Duran said the meeting in Alturas, Calif., was being held to consider Rhoades' appeal of her eviction.

    But at some point, Rhoades opened fire, killing her brother Rurik Davis, 50, who had been named interim chairman by the tribal council, authorities said.

    Also killed in the attack were Rhoades' niece Angel Penn, 19; her nephew Glenn Calonicco, 30; and Shelia Lynn Russo, 47. They were all members of the tribal council that evicted Rhoades, and Russo was the tribal administrator.

    Duran said Penn was holding her newborn infant on her lap when she was shot, but the baby was unhurt and will be placed with a sister.

    Davis' two daughters, Monica and Melissa Davis, were critically wounded, court documents said.

    Responding officers arrested Rhoades outside the building, where a declaration of probable cause says Modoc County Undersheriff Ken Richardson saw Rhodes stabbing one of the victims in the parking lot and handcuffed her after another person tackled her. The document adds that police talked to six people who witnessed the shooting. The two women who survived bullet wounds were also cut with a knife.

    A criminal complaint filed Monday in Modoc County Superior Court charges Rhoades with four counts of murder with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, and two counts of attempted murder. She was to be arraigned Tuesday morning.

    District Attorney Jordan Funk said she will face the death penalty if she's convicted, because the complaint carries the special circumstance of multiple victims.

    Funk said it wasn't immediately clear if attorneys had been appointed for Rhoades yet, because they would have to be qualified to handle a capital case.

    The Cedarville Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe with 35 registered members. The Rancheria owns 26 acres in Cedarville, where most members reside in nine small, one-story houses built in the 1950s on the outskirts of town.

    In 2012, the tribe received an Indian housing grant for $50,399 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to a news release on the agency's website.

    Duran said he couldn't confirm whether that was the money in question, adding the amount could be less "or a lot more."

    Though police have said they are still working on a motive, a nephew who lived with Rhoades, Jacob Penn, said she snapped under the pressure of her brother's attempt to evict her.

    Eviction from tribal housing is among the most serious punishments for American Indians. However, Rhoades and Stockton were not being removed from tribal rolls and would continue to receive their share of $1.1 million in gambling revenue shared by casino tribes with the Rancheria, which does not have a casino, Duran said.

    Alturas Police Chief Ken Barnes said that as the shooting erupted, young children were inside the building and on the property, and a judge from another tribe was listening to the eviction proceedings over the phone.

    After running out of bullets, Rhoades grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed a woman, police said. She chased one of Davis' daughters out of the building and into the parking lot while brandishing the knife.

    There, she was tackled by the tribal headquarters maintenance man, Duran said.

    Both of Davis' daughters were wounded. Officials said one was alert and talking, while the other remained in critical condition Friday.

    The tribe's headquarters -- a ranch-style building with a pitched brown metal roof and solar panels -- is in a residential area about a block from the police station. Police were alerted to the attack by a woman covered in blood pounding on a side entrance to City Hall, which also houses the police.

    The tribe is busy cleaning the building, and it is uncertain whether it will resume using the facility because of the slayings, Duran said.

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    Former tribal leader pleads not guilty in killings

    The lawyer for the former leader of a small Northern California Indian tribe is asking the community not to prejudge the woman as she faces trial on allegations that she shot and killed four people and tried to kill two others at a tribal meeting considering her eviction.

    Cherie Lash Rhoades pleaded not guilty Monday in Modoc Superior Court to a complaint charging her with four counts of murder and two of attempted murder. The charges carry a potential death penalty.

    Afterward, defense attorney Antonio R. Alvarez asked that people not prejudge Rhoades. He says the facts of what happened — "and more importantly why" — have not been fully developed.

    The attack happened Feb. 20 at a meeting of the Cedarville Rancheria Tribal Council. Rhoades was suspended as tribal chairwoman just three weeks earlier, pending an investigation into embezzlement allegations.

    http://www.wsbtv.com/news/ap/califor...illings/nd448/
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    Death penalty planned in tribal slaying

    ALTURAS, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors say they plan to seek the death penalty against a woman accused of killing four people and trying to kill two others at a Northern California tribal meeting.

    Modoc County prosecutors announced Monday that they intend to seek capital punishment against Cherie Rhoades. Rhoades has pleaded not guilty to four counts of murder and two of attempted murder in the Feb. 20 gun and knife attack at a meeting of the Cedarville Rancheria Tribal Council in Alturas. Rhoades had been suspended as tribal chairwoman just three weeks earlier pending an investigation into embezzlement allegations, and the tribe was considering evicting her.

    Among those killed were three of Rhoades' relatives.

    Her attorney, Antonio Alvarez, said the District Attorney appeared to be leaning toward the death penalty, so he wasn't surprised by the announcement.

    http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/11/10/...#storylink=cpy

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    Cedarville woman faces death penalty in murder of four people, including her brother, at tribal headquarters

    Placer County jurors continued to hear testimony Wednesday to determine whether Cherie Louise Lash Rhoades should be sentenced to death for the 2014 murder of four people.

    Rhoades, 46, of Cedarville, was convicted Dec. 19 of killing three of her relatives and a tribal administrator of Cedarville Rancheria during a hearing at the tribe’s headquarters to decide whether she and her son should be evicted from tribal housing.

    Rhoades, a former chairwoman of the 35-member tribe, used a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun in the rampage and stabbed a woman with a butcher knife after she ran out of bullets, according to police statements.

    Her trial was moved from Modoc County to Placer County, where jurors needed less than two hours to find her guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder.

    Three weeks before the Feb. 20, 2014, attack, Rhoades had been suspended as chairwoman pending a federal investigation into allegations that she embezzled at least $50,000 from the tribe.

    Pronounced dead at the scene were Rurik Davis, 50, Rhoades’ brother; Angel Penn, 19, her niece; Glenn Calonicco, 30, her nephew; and Shelia Lynn Russo, 47, a tribal administrator who managed evictions. Melissa Davis and Monica Davis were both injured.

    The penalty phase of Rhoades’ murder trial is scheduled to continue through the week, said Rosalinda Cruz, a spokeswoman for Placer Superior Court.

    http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/cri...124638179.html
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    Jury Approves Death Penalty for Convicted Alturas Mass Shooter Cherie Rhoades

    PLACER COUNTY -- The woman convicted in a 2014 mass shooting in Alturas will be sentenced to death, a jury decided Thursday.

    A Placer County judge will go forward with the decision at a hearing in April.

    Cherie Rhoades killed four people and injured two others on Feb. 20, 2014 inside the Cedarville Rancheria Tribal Office. At the time, Rhoades was about to be ousted as the tribal chairwoman.

    Those killed were her nephew Glenn Colonico, her niece Angel Penn, her brother Rurik Davis and tribal administrator Sheila Russo.

    Russo's husband told FOX40 that she had uncovered misused funds in the tribal books, which, in part, led to Rhoades being evicted. The shooting began during the eviction hearing.

    Rhoades was ultimately convicted of four counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder, for shooting and stabbing two of her other nieces.

    Now, nearly three years later, survivors are haunted by what happened that night.

    "I still have a bullet in my back side, and it's always gonna be there," Melissa Davis, Rhoades' niece, said.

    Melissa and another of Rhoades' nieces, Monica, spoke with FOX40 Thursday evening after the jury's decision was announced.

    "For me, one of the most devastating parts was laying under that table and listening to my sister screaming and there was nothing I could do," Monica Davis said.

    Both say Rhoades never explained her rampage in court, but her actions during the trial spoke louder than her words ever could.

    "You'd see her laughing, joking," Melissa Davis said. "She didn't care what she did."

    http://fox40.com/2017/01/05/jury-app...herie-rhoades/
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    So far this has been the fairest year for death sentences for sexes, one and one so far.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Sentencing is supposed to take place on April 10th.

    http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/cri...124994349.html
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Alturas mass shooter sentenced to death

    Cherie Lash-Rhoades, the woman convicted of killing four people in a mass shooting in Alturas in 2014, was sentenced to death Monday morning by a Modoc County judge.

    The judge sentenced Lash-Rhoades to death for the four people she murdered and 150 years to life for the attempted murder cases and special allegations. Lash-Rhoades will not be eligible for custody credits. The judge also ordered that Lash-Rhoades pay $64,000 in restitution.

    Lash-Rhoades was found guilty in December of 2016 on four counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. The jury recommended the death penalty. According to Modoc County District Attorney Jordan Funk, this is the first death penalty case he knows of in Modoc County.

    Lash-Rhoades shot six people at the Cedarville Rancheria Tribal Office in Alturas, ultimately killing four on February 20, 2014. Officials said at least one of the injured was also attacked with a butcher knife after Lash-Rhoades ran out of ammunition.

    Officials added a witness was able to escape the office and run, covered in blood, to the Alturas Police Station where they sounded the alarm.

    Police said when they arrived, Lash-Rhoades was outside the building, running with a knife in her hands, but was quickly subdued.

    The four victims were identified as Rurik Davis, 50, Lash-Rhoades' brother and tribal chairman; Angel Penn, 19, Lash-Rhoades' niece; Glenn Calonico, 30, Lash-Rhoades' nephew; and Sheila Russo, 47.

    http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/mod...cing/445516168
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    Rhoades entered California's death row on April 20, 2017.

    http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/capital_punis...listsecure.pdf

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