Man Faces Federal Murder Charge

Wed., Dec. 31, 1997

Compiled From Wire Services

One of three Lapwai men accused of killing a Nez Perce tribal member has been arrested on federal murder charges.

Appolis X. Scott, 22, appeared in a federal courtroom in Boise Tuesday for a preliminary hearing on charges of second-degree murder. Scott had been held at the Nez Perce County Jail in Lewiston on murder charges under Nez Perce Tribal Code.

Two other men, Bryan T. Crowe, 22, and Izaak W. Johnson, 22, are still in Nez Perce County Jail on the same charges.

They are accused of murdering Willis T. Greene, 35, who was found severely beaten and dead outside a Lapwai home Dec. 16.

Tribal Police Chief Tom Idol said the men chased Greene from a Lapwai bar to a home across the street where Greene sometimes stayed and beat him.

A relative of Scott’s posted his $10,000 bond Christmas Eve, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Peters said. Scott was immediately arrested by federal authorities, charged with second-degree murder and taken to Boise, where he was in federal custody in the Ada County Jail.

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