Published March 19, 2013, 02:26 PM
ND county sheriff discusses 2 weekend homicides
Williams County Sheriff Scott Busching says two homicides in one weekend doesn't do much for the area's reputation.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — Williams County Sheriff Scott Busching says two homicides in one weekend doesn't do much for the area's reputation.
But Busching tells The Forum newspaper that the area in the heart of the booming North Dakota oil patch "is not the Wild West."
In one case, a Michigan man stands accused of stabbing his roommate to death at an oil field crew camp between Ray and Tioga. In the other, a Utah man is suspected in the fatal shooting of another man outside a Williston bar.
Busching says the influx of people into the oil patch in search of work has resulted in “some undesirables,” but he says there are a lot of good people in the region, too.
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