The US aviator accused of killing the woman in South Dakota who disappeared in August

A member of the United States Air Force was arrested for killing a southern Dakota woman who disappeared last year, authorities said on the weekend. Sahela Sangrait, 21, was missing almost seven months, when a hike discovered her decomposition remains in early March, conformable at the sheriff’s office in Pennington County.

An investigation that followed Sangrait was killed at the base of Ellsworth Air Force near the western city of Southern Dakota in Box Elder, where the woman lived, the sheriff said on Saturday. Quinterius Chappelle, an active service plane at the base, is facing federal accusations for second -degree murder at her death.

Chappelle is owned for the US Marshals service at Pennington County prison, reservation records shows. The American prosecutor’s office will follow the case, according to the sheriff’s office.

CBS News contacted the base of Ellsworth Air Force, but did not receive an immediate answer. A spokesman of the base said New York Times That Chappelle was an inspection traveler distributed to the 28th -28th maintenance squadron, who entered the air force in 2019.

He reported disappeared on August 10, Sangrait was last known that he was with a friend in Eagle Butte, a city in the Cheyenne River Reserve, about 150 miles northern -East Ellsworth, according to a The poster of missing persons. When he left Eagle Butte, Sangrait said he intends to lift some of his Box Elder goods before traveling to California, but the woman became untouched afterwards, the poster said.

The poster identified bloody as a native American. In the US, American -domestic women are disproportionately targeted In crimes, sexual assaults and other violent acts, both in reservations and in the nearby cities, to the point where the rate they are missing or killed has been called a national crisis.

In 2016 there were more than 5,700 reports on missing native women and girls, according to Anti-Sexual Rainn Assault Organizationwhich uses statistics from the National Center for Crime Information. The Indian Business Office has recently estimated that approximately 4,200 cases of indigenous and killed indigenous remains unsolved. At least a few dozen indigenous women are currently missing only in South Dakota, according to missing people of the state Web site.