Family of man killed at Eddy County bar calling him a hero

SHEYENNE, N.D. — The manhunt for a suspect concerned in a deadly taking pictures in a rural North Dakota bar is getting into its second night time.

Police say the person, 45-year-old Nicholas Poitra, is probably going armed and is taken into account “extraordinarily harmful.”

He is accused of taking pictures 30-year outdated Troyal Thumb inside Rindy’s Bar in Sheyenne, North Dakota, round 7 p.m. Sunday night time, Feb. 19. Sheyenne is a small city roughly 30 miles southwest of Devils Lake.

A number of different individuals had been contained in the bar on the time.

Poitra has ties to the Spirit Lake Reservation and the Turtle Mountain Reservation, so police in each these areas are asking residents to be on excessive alert.

Police say there was some kind of verbal argument between the boys. Poitra then allegedly shot and killed Thumb, a single father of three.

Thumb’s aunt says the argument had one thing to do with Poitra, and his interactions with the bartender, who’s a detailed household good friend of Thumb’s.

Thumb reportedly stepped in to guard her.

That is why Thumb’s aunt is looking him a hero, probably saving the good friend’s life from Poitra.

They are saying Thumb was unarmed.

A regulation enforcement supply says the automotive Poitra reportedly stole to get away was present in Wells County, North Dakota.