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Victim: Daryl Lussier
The grandfather of accused gunman Jeff Weise and one of his first two victims, Lussier, 58, was a lifelong tribal police officer known around the reservation by his nickname: Dash.
"If you knew him, you said 'Dash,' and everyone knew who you were talking about," said Ed Naranjo, a retired Bureau of Indian Affairs officer who worked with Lussier.
Lussier had four adult children and two younger than 10, Naranjo said. He helped maintain order during periods of turmoil and unrest on the reservation.
"He was that kind of individual who could calm a very hot situation," Naranjo said. "He just projected that feeling."
Tribal officers were nervous in the late '80s, Naranjo said, when the tribe switched from Bureau of Indian Affairs protection to contract officers.
"There was that song at the time - 'Don't Worry, Be Happy,'" Naranjo recalled. "Everybody was feeling kind of down, and he would just walk around singing that."
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