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Duluth woman pleads guilty to role in Red Lake reservation murder

By Pat Sweeney Oct 12, 2022 | 1:23 PM

A Duluth (MN) woman has pleaded guilty to her role in a 2019 murder on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.

The U-S Attorney’s Office says 21-year-old Mia Faye Sumner pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of aiding and abetting murder in the second degree.

Court documents say, in 2019, Sumner and two co-defendants, armed with at least one handgun, entered the garage at the home of 23-year-old Daniel Johnson.

Once inside, a co-defendant, 21-year-old Alexia Cutbank of Bemidji, fired multiple shots, fatally wounding Johnson and seriously injuring a second victim.

Sumner, Cutbank and 31-year-old Daniel Barrett of Redby then went to a waiting vehicle and left the scene. Fifty-year-old Rose Siewert of Cass Lake drove the three off the reservation to avoid arrest.

Sumner’s sentencing hearing is pending.

The other three people involved have pleaded guilty to various charges.

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