Montana
Patrick Jensen named Montana Western head men’s basketball coach
DILLON — Montana Western named Patrick Jensen males’s basketball coach on Monday.
Jensen had been the interim head coach following the resignation of Mike Larsen. Jensen beforehand served because the Bulldogs’ affiliate head coach for the previous 5 seasons. He turns into the thirteenth head males’s basketball coach in class historical past.
“It is a humbling expertise, the quantity of people that have helped and supported me all through my profession, I’m so grateful and appreciative of all of you,” Jensen said in a press launch. “I’m excited to proceed to work with our present student-athletes, in addition to the incoming ones.
“UMW basketball has an unbelievable historical past due to all the previous coaches and gamers and we plan on persevering with to construct on that custom. Basketball has afforded me so many unbelievable experiences in my life and I hope to have the ability to proceed to move on these experiences to others.”
Jensen performed at Montana State-Northern from 2010-2015 the place he was a part of two common season and one postseason Frontier Convention championships, together with 4 appearances within the NAIA nationwide match. He spent three seasons with Idaho State, two as a graduate assistant, and the 2017-18 season as director of participant improvement.
“As I used to be enthusiastic about our subsequent head coach, I needed to search out somebody that would construct a program long run, develop a tradition of successful and most significantly, have a optimistic affect on the lives of present and future Bulldogs,” UM Western athletic director Michael Feuling mentioned within the launch. “Success is constructed by character, doing the little issues, onerous work, and dedication. All through my reflection, these traits stored main me again to Pat.”
Montana
Montana man found dead in tent welcomed suspect to camp and gave him a beer, officials say
A Montana man found slain in his tent this month welcomed the suspect in his killing, a stranger, to his campsite and offered him a beer, the Gallatin County sheriff said Thursday.
Daren Christopher Abbey, 41, was arrested this week and charged with deliberate homicide in the killing of Dustin Kjersem, 35, whose body was found in his tent near Big Sky on Oct. 12, officials said.
It was a “chance encounter” at the campsite on the night of Oct. 10, and Abbey did not know Kjersem, Sheriff Dan Springer said at a news conference.
Abbey had planned to camp at the site, but when he arrived that night he found Kjersem was already there, with a wall tent, beds and a stove, Springer said.
Abbey in a confession to detectives, “stated Dustin welcomed him to the campsite and offered him a beer,” Springer said.
“At some point, this individual struck Dustin Kjersem with a piece of solid wood, stabbed him in the neck with a screwdriver and ultimately hit him with the ax,” Springer said. “The motives of this attack are still unknown.”
The state crime lab matched DNA from a beer can found in the tent to Abbey, Springer said.
Abbey was arrested Saturday in Butte, around 80 miles northwest of Big Sky. He was interviewed by sheriff’s detectives and Montana Justice Department investigators Tuesday and confessed to the killing, Springer said.
Kjersem planned to spend the weekend at the campsite with his girlfriend. He set up the camp on Oct. 10, a Thursday, and he planned to pick his girlfriend up from work the next night, Springer said.
Kjersem never arrived. The girlfriend and a friend drove to the campsite on Oct. 12, a Saturday, and found Kjersem dead in the tent, Springer said.
Kjersem’s injuries were such that the person who reported discovering his body suspected he had been attacked by a bear, the sheriff’s office has said. An autopsy confirmed it was homicide, not an animal attack.
Abbey had been living in a couple of different areas but most recently had a residence in Basin, Montana, a small community in the mountains northeast of Butte, Springer said. He had been employed in the Big Sky area at various times, Springer said.
Abbey was arrested on a probation violation in Butte but is charged with deliberate homicide in Kjersem’s death, the sheriff’s office said.
State Corrections Department records show Abbey was on conditional release after a prison sentence for a 2020 repeat driving under the influence case.
Abbey was being held in custody Thursday night without bond, jail records show. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
The investigation could take months more. Springer said detectives will work to put together more pieces of what occurred, including what motive Abbey might have had.
“We have a bit of his story, but we don’t really know what the true story is,” Springer said. “We have a story — we just don’t know if it’s accurate.”
Springer said that after he killed Kjersem, Abbey removed items he may have touched or which could connect him to the crime, including a cooler and the ax. He returned the next night and took more items, Springer said.
The sheriff’s office previously said an ax, a Yeti cooler, a shotgun and a revolver were missing from the campsite.
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15-year-old girl killed in crash near Jordan
JORDAN – A 15-year-old girl was killed and a 16-year-old boy was injured in a one-vehicle crash near Jordan.
The Montana Highway Patrol reports the crash happened Wednesday shortly before 7 p.m. on Highway 200 at mile marker 178.
The patrol said the girl was driving a Chevrolet Suburban westbound on the highway when the vehicle went off the right side of the road and overturned. The patrol said the girl was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected. She died at the scene.
The extent of the boy’s injuries was not released, but he was taken to an area medical facility. Both teens are from Sand Springs.
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