RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO) — A Rapid City woman is headed to federal prison following a conviction of voluntary manslaughter.
Lucy Medicine Eagle, age 33, was sentenced to four years and nine months in federal prison,
followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund following a August 1 conviction of voluntary manslaughter on her brother.
Medicine Eagle was indicted by a federal grand jury in June of 2022. She pleaded guilty on April
26, 2024.
On March 28, 2022, Medicine Eagle was at a residence in St. Francis, in the Rosebud Reservation,
drinking alcohol with family members and had a verbal argument with her adult brother. She
thought her brother had stolen and pawned her Xbox gaming console, but it was actually simply
misplaced and sitting behind a couch on the premises.
Not knowing this, Medicine Eagle struck and punched her brother in the face and head numerous times. He told her to stop, but she did not stop and he put his arms up in a defensive position as she continued to strike him.
She stopped striking him when other household members intervened. By that time, the brother had suffered severe head injuries and was soon unresponsive. He was transported to Monument Health in Rapid City where he was kept alive on life support machines.
He died on April 1, 2022 and his cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma injuries to the head.
Medicine Eagle was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal to serve her
sentence following her conviction.
KELOLAND News previously reported on Lucy Medicine Eagle.
