7th man indicted in connection with Uintah shooting

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SALT LAKE CITY — A Uintah County man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for his alleged role in a shooting this summer that killed one person and critically injured another.

The Nov. 22 indictment, which was unsealed Thursday, charges Colin Rian Manning with murder in the second degree while within Indian Country and aiding and abetting, assault causing serious bodily injury while within Indian Country and aiding and abetting, and use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.

Manning, 24, is the seventh person charged in connection with a June 18 shooting that killed James Edward Carey and critically injured Jared R. Hurley. His case will be tried in federal court because he is an enrolled member of the Ute Indian Tribe and the shooting occurred within the boundaries of the Uintah-Ouray Indian Reservation.

Six other people face charges in state court.

Bruce Silva, the alleged gunman, is charged in 8th District Court with murder and attempted murder, both first-degree felonies.

I handed (the gun) to him, and then things got crazy. I just thought he wanted to scare them. I didn't think they wanted to shoot anyone.

–Teaunna Cesspooch

Three of Silva's brothers — Adrian Silva, Alberto Silva Jr. and Kevin Silva — are each charged with murder and attempted murder, as are Silva's girlfriend Shadow Reed and another woman, Teaunna Cesspooch.

All four Silvas, Reed and Cesspooch also face other felony and misdemeanor charges in state court. They are being held in the Uintah County Jail awaiting separate jury trials.

Investigators with the Uintah County Sheriff's Office and FBI say the Silva brothers, Reed, Cesspooch and Manning drove to a home in Lapoint on June 18 because Bruce Silva believed someone there had vandalized his car. The brothers were armed with baseball bats, and Bruce Silva had given Manning a .380-caliber pistol, which Manning had passed on to Cesspooch, according to charging documents.

Manning and Cesspooch each told the FBI in recorded interviews played during Cesspooch's preliminary hearing last month that when the group reached its destination, he retrieved the gun from her and approached the house with the Silva brothers.

"I handed (the gun) to him, and then things got crazy," Cesspooch told FBI special agent Travis Lemon, adding later, "I just thought he wanted to scare them. I didn't think they wanted to shoot anyone."

Manning brandished the gun before Bruce Silva took it from him, pointed it at the people who had come out of the home and began firing, witnesses said.

Carey, 25, was shot in the head and died. Hurley, 34, was also struck by bullets, but survived.

Bruce Silva, Reed, Cesspooch and Manning left Uintah County after the shooting. Reed and Cesspooch were arrested a short time later. Mexican national police and U.S. marshals took Silva into custody nearly two months later, after tracking him down in Tijuana, Mexico.

Manning was interviewed after the shooting, but never arrested. A warrant was issued for his arrest after he was indicted, and federal agents are looking for him. Anyone with information about where he may be is asked to call the FBI office in Vernal at 435-789-2112 or Bureau of Indian Affairs police dispatch at 435-722-2012.

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