The suspect in a triple homicide on the Crow Reservation in Montana made his first court appearance on Thursday.

Sheldon Bernard Chase, 22, was arrested in Spokane, Washington. He faces extradition to Montana to answer to the murders of his grandmother, Gloria Sarah Goes Ahead Cummins; his 21-year-old cousin, Levon F. Driftwood; and her boyfriend, Rueben Charles Jefferson, 20.

Chase is alleged to have taken a gun from his mother's home on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota on Monday. He allegedly showed up with the gun at his grandmother's house on Tuesday, when the shooting occurred.

According to news reports, the three-year-old son of Driftwood and Jefferson witnessed the shooting and identified Chase as the perpetrator. Chase reportedly has a history of mental illness.

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