Authorities detain man in connection with Yankton Sioux homicides

Thursday, February 3, 2011  

Immigration authorities have detained a man who was questioned in connection with the murders of three people from the Yankton Sioux Tribe.

Omar Mohamed Kalmio, a citizen of Somalia, was questioned in North Dakota about the deaths of Jolene Zephier, 38, and two of her children, Dylan Zephier, 13, and Sabrina Zephier, 19. Kalmio is the father of Sabrina Zephier's child, who was found alone and unharmed in a home where her mother was killed last Friday.

North Dakota authorities released Kalmio after he was questioned. He is now in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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