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Three suspects involved in a shooting that left two people dead on the Colville Indian Reservation last month were charged in federal court Tuesday with assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon during a car chase.
Zachary Holt, Desmonique Tensley and Kari Pinkham were charged in U.S. District Court with assaulting a federal officer and using a firearm during a violent crime.
Colville Tribal Police Sgt. Chris Brakebill was shot in the wrist while chasing the suspects’ vehicle after the Oct. 20 fatal shooting, according to an affidavit by FBI Special Agent David DeBartolo.
Breakbill is a specially commissioned officer in the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Brakebill was responding to reports of shots fired at a trailer in Keller when he spotted a red Honda sedan matching the suspect vehicle description on Cache Creek Road about 15 miles northwest of Keller, DeBartolo wrote. Brakebill was shot several times during the pursuit of the fleeing vehicle.
The next day, Tensley and Holt were arrested in Nespelem and Pinkham in Elmer City.
Tensley was also charged in District Court with being a felon in possession of ammunition.
Tensley’s criminal record includes a 2009 escape in Pierce County and a 2012 second-degree assault in Asotin County, court records show. Possession of ammunition for firearms is illegal.
Tensley pleaded not guilty to all three charges at a hearing on Wednesday. He is being held in the Spokane County Jail without a bond hearing.
Holt and Pinkham are in custody at the Colville Tribal Correctional Facility in Nespelem.
Holt faces charges under the tribe’s criminal code that include criminal homicide, criminal homicide against a law enforcement officer, obstruction of justice and weapons offenses.
Pinkham is charged with aiding and abetting criminal homicide, reckless endangerment and attempting to elude a police vehicle.
Two unidentified men were found dead in a trailer in Keller.
The house where the trailer was parked burned down on Monday. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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