GREAT FALLS – A Heart Butte man who shot at a family, including two children, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation was sentenced today to two years and three months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Mark Steger Smith said. The court also imposed a $7,500 fine as part of its sentence.
Raymond David Boggs, Jr., 53, pleaded guilty in June 2026 to assault with a dangerous weapon and two counts of felony child abuse.
U.S. District Judge William W. Mercer presided.
The government alleged in court documents that a woman and her son called 911 on May 14, 2024, to report that Raymond Boggs was firing a gun at them. The woman and her son were cleaning out a family property along with the woman’s 12-year-old nephew and her 11-year-old niece. When law enforcement arrived, the woman and her son explained that Boggs had yelled at them from his property while he watched them from a golf cart. He later returned in a truck, pulled a gun, and fired at the group while they were outside. He continued to shoot into the house when the four took shelter inside. The woman and her nephew described hearing two different sounding gunshots. They then pointed out Boggs to the officers as he drove around on a golf cart. Law enforcement canvassed the area between the two houses and ultimately contacted Boggs, who was riding in a golf cart and had a shotgun with him. Boggs was detained, and the shotgun was taken into evidence. Law enforcement found spent shell casings and a spent shotgun shell where Boggs had been shooting; ballistic evidence showed the shotgun shell had been fired from Boggs’ shotgun. Officers also found bullet holes in the exterior of the house that traveled into the house, and they found bullet holes in vehicles parked alongside the house. They also recovered a bullet from a couch inside the home. When the occupants of the house were interviewed after the shooting, all four named Boggs as the shooter. The quartet described feeling terrified that they would be hurt or killed as Boggs shot into the house.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecuted the case. The BIA, Blackfeet Law Enforcement Services, Glacier County Sheriff’s Office, and Pondera County Sheriff’s Office conducted the investigation.