Jurors in a downtown Minneapolis courtroom silently wiped away tears as they viewed graphic images of two young brothers stabbed in their home. It was the first day of their mother’s murder trial.
Jennifer Stately, 37, an enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, is charged with murdering her sons Remi and Tristan, ages 6 and 5, on March 15, 2024. After the stabbings and setting her home ablaze on the reservation, she fled with her youngest son, Ethan, then 3 years old, sparking a statewide Amber Alert – the first in the system’s 22 years in Minnesota to come from a tribal reservation…