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Nathan Lee Chasing Horse gets life for Indigenous assaults

4/29/2026

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Nathan Lee Chasing Horse was sentenced Tuesday in Las Vegas to life imprisonment for multiple sexual-assault convictions.
He was convicted on a dozen counts involving three Indigenous women, is eligible for parole in 2063, and faces charges in British Columbia and warrant in Alberta.
Bianca Pucci said he told a 14-year-old victim spirits required her virginity to save her mother’s cancer, then assaulted her and threatened her mother’s death.

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Nathan Lee Chasing Horse was sentenced Tuesday in Las Vegas to life imprisonment for multiple sexual-assault convictions.
He was convicted on a dozen counts involving three Indigenous women, is eligible for parole in 2063, and faces charges in British Columbia and warrant in Alberta.
Bianca Pucci said he told a 14-year-old victim spirits required her virginity to save her mother’s cancer, then assaulted her and threatened her mother’s death.