RAPID CITY, S.D. – Authorities say a person of interest in a recent double homicide in Rapid City was arrested Tuesday night.
Robert Yellow Bird was apprehended by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement Services at an apartment in the Mission area.
Rosebud police zeroed in on Yellow Bird after they received reports of a male brandishing a firearm from a vehicle in the Mission area. Police believed it was the Ford Taurus X involved in the Saturday shooting. Police tracked the car to the apartment where they made the arrest.
Along with Yellow Bird, police also arrested four other people from Rapid City, including Benita Cisneros who was identified as the Taurus driver.
Police did not find another man wanted for questioning about the shooting on Surfwood Drive. That man, 20-year-old Chase Quick Bear of Rapid City, according to Rosebud police, left the reservation earlier in the day going to either Rapid City or the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Rochelle Janis, a 15-year-old Rapid City teen, is also being sought as a person of interested in Saturday’s homicide.
