PHOTO: Charlene Bearcub, a probation officer for the Colville Confederated Tribes, has many reminders of her son’s death nearly five years ago. Ronald D. Thomas Jr. was 18 when he was shot and killed by his best friend on Jan. 12, 2005, in a small house she can see from her office window. His friend, also 18, was charged with homicide, but acquitted by a jury in Colville Tribal Court. Bearcub says the case should have been investigated by the FBI and prosecuted in federal court. She said she’s tried to convince federal prosecutors to charge the young man who shot him, without success.
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