[Gateway] On Christmas Eve 2023, 41 year old Master Sergeant Nicholas Van Pelt was dead, and a 40 year old woman who was not his wife was on the ground bleeding from a bullet to the shoulder and one to the arm. Meanwhile, Department of Homeland Security Agent Daniel Breijo was patiently waiting for police to arrive with his hands on his head and the murder weapon at his side in the bathroom.The bleeding woman was able to tell police, "Danny did it" as she was taken to safety and for medical attention. She has not been identified, except that she is a 40 year old employee in Ward County’s state attorney’s office. What she meant was that Breijo was the one who fired eight shots in the small apartment, six almost immediately into the chest of Van Pelt when he answered the door.
Since that time, the criminal case in the state of North Dakota against federal DHS Agent Breijo has lingered and largely stalled.
Nine months later and the case still has not set the dates for its preliminary hearing, and the defense uncharacteristically keeps trying to seal all details in this criminal case from public view.