RAPID CITY (AP) – A Kyle man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for a fatal shooting on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Jamie Shoulders was sentenced in federal court in Rapid City after pleading guilty to second-degree murder for killing Christopher Janis, a 42-year-old Marine veteran with a wife and two children.
Judge Jeffrey Viken ordered Shoulders Tuesday to pay nearly $28,000 in restitution to Janis' wife and spend five years on supervised release after prison. Prosecutors say the shooting happened near Sharps Corner during a drug deal in 2017.
The Rapid City Journal reports officials say Janis was selling some of his prescription hydrocodone painkillers so he could take his wife to Deadwood for her birthday.
