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Cole Brings Plenty, the actor who played Pete Plenty Clouds in the Yellowstone spinoff series 1923, was found dead in Kansas a week after he was reported missing. He was 27 years old.
Plenty was a suspect in a domestic violence incident. According to the Johnson County, Kansas, Sheriff’s Office. he was found on friday In the morning, someone noticed an empty vehicle nearby in a forested area. “The investigation is ongoing,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement, adding that the coroner and investigators were at the scene.
The young Lakota actor also appeared in “Into the Wild Frontier” and “Jim Bridger’s Tall Tales.” The Rapid City Journal in South Dakota reported that he was a student at Haskell Indian Nations University.
Cole Brings Plenty’s uncle, Moe Brings Plenty, who starred in “Yellowstone,” posted several pleas on Instagram while the search for his nephew was underway. “I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone in the community who has donated their time, resources and support to the search for the missing person,” he wrote Thursday.
The Lawrence Police Department said in a statement Tuesday that Cole Brings Plenty is suspected of being involved in a domestic violence dispute at an apartment in Lawrence on Sunday. “Officers responded to a call of a woman screaming for help, but the suspect fled before officers arrived,” it reads. “Through the investigation, the suspect, Brings Plenty, was identified and traffic cameras captured him leaving the city shortly after the incident, heading south on Highway 59.”
“We have identified him as a suspect, established probable cause for his arrest, and alerted local authorities,” the statement said.