In the early morning hours of June 20, 2022, Dustin Lemay-Storms grabbed a rifle and a headlamp and stepped out of his trailer. He headed toward an oilfield lease site where moments before a bright blue flash had lit up the sky.

As Lemay-Storms approached the site, he saw the outline of a pickup truck. He fired the .22 as the truck sped in reverse. One of the rounds struck the driver in the forehead.

Lemay-Storms, 37, was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week for killing the truck’s driver, Stephen Pond. While prosecutors urged Court of King’s Bench Justice Wayne Renke to find the killing was an act of rural vigilantism gone wrong, the judge ultimately concluded Lemay-Storms’s actions were too muddled to present any kind of coherent motive.

Most notably, Lemay-Storms himself had a

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