FBI arrest man after woman is found dead
A federal criminal complaint has been filed against a man who FBI agents allege killed a Native American woman at the request of his girlfriend and dumped her body at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.
The woman, whose name has not been released by the FBI, is a member of the Comanche Nation and “appeared to have suffered bludgeon wounds to her face and head,” according to the probable cause affidavit filed in the U.S. Western District Court of Oklahoma by FBI Special Agent Jesse Stoda. The woman was found dead in the refuge on May 17, and two days later investigators found blood in her Lawton home indicating a violent struggle.
Her vehicle was missing from the home and later observed driving south of Dallas on May 21. The driver began to flee when law enforcement tried to make a traffic stop, eventually crashing into a lake. The two occupants, Tevin Semien and his girlfriend, tried to run away on foot but were caught and taken into custody.
Semien waived his Miranda rights and, according to the affidavit, admitted to killing the woman. Semien told investigators his girlfriend, who was the woman’s relative, was angry with the woman and asked him to kill her.
The suspect told investigators his girlfriend continued to ask him to kill the woman, so he eventually did. He went to the woman’s home, bludgeoned her “to death with a brick, put her body in the trunk of” her own vehicle and dumped her body in the wildlife refuge, according to the affidavit.
According to a news release from the day her body was found, the woman was in her mid- to late-60s with dark/ gray hair. She was missing her right index finger and half of her right middle finger, about 4’11” tall and weighing about 90 pounds. The FBI is investigating the case because the crime happened on tribal lands.