The killings of two young people have left Native Americans living in the small Northern California town of Covelo shocked.
“I think everyone has an absolute right to say that we don’t have enough sheriff’s office presence throughout the county,” Mendocino County Sheriff Matthew Kendall said at the meeting. “We’re running on a crew that’s as low as any I’ve ever seen, and we’re still doing better than many other counties.”
Whipple said Pina was his uncle and he was killed eight years ago. “A hunter found him,” he said. Because the community is so small, many know or are related to the victims. The only town in the mountain-ringed Round Valley, Covelo is home to about 2,300 people; nearly half are American Indians from several different tribes, according to the. A small portion of the town's borders falls within the Round Valley Indian Reservation.
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