Current Events > Mother of Aryan and Nation on trial for hit and run on Indigenous woman

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Sunny Katherinne White has been charged by the Lake County Attorney's Office with vehicular homicide in connection with the death of Mika Josephine Westwolf.
Westwolf died after being hit by a vehicle as she walking along Highway 93 near White Coyote Road just outside of Arlee in March 2023.
Seven months later, White has been charged with five felonies: vehicular homicide while under the influence, accidents involving another person or deceased person, two counts of criminal child endangerment, and criminal possession of dangerous drugs.
White was arrested on October 20, 2023, on an extra-jurisdiction warrant and spent the weekend in Flathead County Jail. On Sunday, she was bonded out.
MTN News has confirmed an affidavit was filed on Monday which details what investigators claim happened the night of the deadly hit-and-run.
According to the affidavit, on March 31, 2023, at around 4:15 a.m., Tribal Police Officer T.J. Haynes was patrolling north of Arlee on Highway 93 when he saw vehicle debris and a body. Mika Westwolf was later identified as the victim.
Just over an hour later, at 5:23 a.m., a Lake County Sheriff's Office deputy noticed a gold 2008 Cadillac Escalade with front-end damage and a missing passenger side rear-view mirror parked just outside of Polson. The damage to the vehicle matched the description of the vehicle debris described at the scene.
The deputy saw a woman soon identified as Sunny White moving items from the banged-up Escalade and into another car. According to the affidavit, White said that her vehicle was overheating and she had called a friend to help her.
The affidavit states that White claimed she had hit a deer, did not stop, and kept driving - [White] claimed she was passing a bottle back to her baby and didnt see the deer," court documents state.
The affidavit reports that White had her two children, 4-year-old Aryan and 2-year-old Nation, in her car.
White told Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Tyler Dager that she was driving with her two small children to Kalispell from Butte for the weekend."
She also denied using alcohol and that she hadnt used methamphetamine or fentanyl in a week," court documents state.
In the statement made to Trooper Dager, White explained that she assumed what she hit was a deer and swerved to the left on the highway. The vehicle was then seized and towed away.
MHP Trooper Wayne Bieber documented the crash scene. The affidavit says that evidence from the scene indicates that Westwolf was walking in the northbound lane of travel or near the fog line when she was struck by the suspect vehicle.
Westwolf was hit head-on and the force of the crash propelled her body closer to the north side of the road, the affadavit states. Westwolf died from numerous blunt force injuries.
After interviewing Westwolf's brother, Davian Howard, troopers learned that the siblings had driven to a bar in the Ravalli area that evening.
According to the affidavit, on the way back into Arlee the two stopped near North Valley Creek, approximately five miles north of the crash scene, where Wetwolf left her phone in the vehicle and walked away. Howard was unable to find Westwolf and left her a voicemail at 1:13 a.m.
The affidavit states that according to cellphone data, White had left Butte close to midnight, drove through Missoula at 2:45 a.m., and was at the scene of the crash at 3 a.m.
After obtaining a search warrant for Whites vehicle, methamphetamine, five syringes, and two unopened packages of Narcan were found. Whites blood sample also returned positive for methamphetamine and fentanyl.
White was ordered to appear in the Lake County Courthouse on the first Wednesday following her arrest.
In the months after her death, Westwolf's family created the "Mika Matters" movement to raise awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) and to call for justice in her case.
The family released a statement on Friday that states:
"As we mark seven months since Mika's tragic passing, it is essential to acknowledge that this arrest is just the beginning of the journey towards justice. The fight to seek accountability, raise awareness, and protect the lives of Indigenous people and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives remains an ongoing battle. Our hearts go out to the families who are still searching for their loved ones, and we remain deeply saddened by the fact that Native Americans continue to go missing at an alarming rate. The urgency to address this issue has never been greater."

Mika Josephine Westwolf:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/2/AAOrNoAAE-RQ.jpg

https://www.krtv.com/news/crime-and-courts/sunny-white-charged-in-connection-with-mika-westwolfs-death

Lock her up for rest of her life and someone please rename these kids.

Reminder that republican politicians love to try to make it legal to murder people by running them over. I believe there was one doing it the very day after Heather Heyer was murdered in this way.

Simon_Gruber posted...

White has been charged with five felonies: (...) accidents involving another person or deceased person

That doesn't sound like it should be a felony or possibly even a crime based on the name of the charge. What's the description?

Also it's always frightening when racists are this brazen rather than being confined to their shadow meetups.

What the fuck at those kids' names. I mean, wtf.

Auto_Chrisbot posted...

What the fuck at those kids' names. I mean, wtf.

you need to ask?

BurmesePenguin posted...

That doesn't sound like it should be a felony or possibly even a crime based on the name of the charge. What's the description?

Also it's always frightening when racists are this brazen rather than being confined to their shadow meetups.

They just used the title of the statute, which is not a helpful description. Basically, it's Montana's hit and run statute. See:

https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/title_0610/chapter_0070/part_0010/section_0030/0610-0070-0010-0030.html

White trash bitch

BurmesePenguin posted...

That doesn't sound like it should be a felony or possibly even a crime based on the name of the charge. What's the description?

Also it's always frightening when racists are this brazen rather than being confined to their shadow meetups.

A hit and run that specifically involves serious injury or death is a felony.

If it was a car or a mailbox or whatever it's a misdemeanor.

What is with the weird combo of meth and fentanyl that seems so common these days? Is it like the new version of coke and heroin or whatever?

She looks like Boebert.

ReiRei89 posted...

She looks like Boebert.

The victim?

Kalispell is in Montana, which is chud central.

Anyone want to guess which party this obviously racist filth supports wholeheartedly?

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how great the name Westwolf is.

I thought the topic title was some kind of typo, damn.

Could have put: White, mother of aryan and nation that would have been even more wtf

I'm hoping her kids find their own ideals as they grow older and petition to get their names changed.

What a tragic loss of life for no reason other than bigotry.

And before people bring up the drugs, while that's a fair motive, she literally named her kids Aryan and Nation.

That's a deep level of racism not often seen.

Hope they're taken away permanently for their own personal good, cause no fucking way that's a good home environment.

bigtiggie23 posted...

I'm hoping her kids find their own ideals as they grow older and petition to get their names changed.

I dont believe that requires a petition. Unless you mean a grassroots petition to have the state change their names before they reach adulthood so as to avoid all the unfortunate shit those names are going to attract.

Speaking of which, those poor kids are now possibly going into the foster system, and its a huge wild card as to whether its going to turn out healthy and supportive or horribly abusive.

Auto_Chrisbot posted...

What the fuck at those kids' names. I mean, wtf.

Do you really not know what Aryan pertains to? @Auto_Chrisbot

She must br a PC fangirl.

Dark_Arbron posted...

I dont believe that requires a petition. Unless you mean a grassroots petition to have the state change their names before they reach adulthood so as to avoid all the unfortunate shit those names are going to attract.

Speaking of which, those poor kids are now possibly going into the foster system, and its a huge wild card as to whether its going to turn out healthy and supportive or horribly abusive.

Yeah petition probably wasn't the word I was looking for. You know what I mean though, whatever the necessary process is to rid themselves of those unfortunate names.

I hope that whomever gets custody of those poor kids changes their fucking names

spikethedevil posted...

Do you really not know what Aryan pertains to? @Auto_Chrisbot

I think that response was rhetorical.

Fucking nuts man. Hope she gets locked up for life and her kids gets taken care away and have their names changed.