Portrait of Vince Brewer Jr., who's son Vinnie Brewer III, 29, of Pine Ridge was gunned down in the parking lot of the SuAnne Big Crow Youth Development Center on the Pine Ridge Reservation. "Even if you come from a good family, you had a good upbringing, there’s no guarantees — no guarantees here. It’s very easy for them to fall in with the wrong group," Vince says. “Choices. You always hear that, all the time. It’s about choices. And Vin made the wrong choice.”

Newborn Stone Charles Daniel Haifley (second left) is wearing a blue sleeper, resting in the crook of his mother's arm. He was their biggest baby, she says. Their only baby who arrived early. His parents know why. “Because he needed to meet his brother.” On the last night of his earthly life, parents Kendra (left) and Damon brought his baby brother to the hospital to meet Silas (not shown) who was dying. They brought Roman (right), his older brother, too.

A Native American man, who asked not to be identified, sleeps on the cold concrete of a chapel as the dawn light breaks on Route 87 in Whiteclay, Neb. Sheridan County residents defended Whiteclay's embattled beer stores, telling local leaders that shutting them down would "scatter" alcohol-related ills and lead to more drunk driving. The four stores sold the equivalent of 3.5 million cans of beer last year a few hundred yards south of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation, where liquor is banned but alcoholism is rampant.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Hawke, of Lincoln, enjoys a moment with his daughter Brooklyn during a sending off ceremony for him and additional members of the Nebraska Army National Guard's Company G, 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion, based out of Lincoln, Neb., on Friday, June 3, 2016.

Judith Gibson (left) and Barbara DiBarnard share a tender moment after they were married in their home in Lincoln, Neb. on Friday, June 26, 2015. Barbara and Judith, who have been together for 27 years, were finally able to be legally apply for a marriage license in Nebraska following the U. S. Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage in all 50 states.

Five-year-old Brayden Ogorzolka of Aurora is enveloped by a frothly amalgam of mud an soap suds as he hits the bottom of the Slip-n-Slide on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, during the Nebraska Sports Council's Mud Run '13 at the Lancaster Event Center.

Six-month-old Robert Bielski, Jr. stares at the menacing image of actor Clint Eastwood in the middle of a movie fight as it peers from his family's television set at home in Philadelphia.

Lincoln resident Tami Nordman and her children James, Jr. and Hope are overwhelmed with emotion as they watch husband and father Sgt. James Nordman return home with members of his unit, Company C, 2-135th General Support Aviation Battalion, at the National Guard air base in Lincoln, Neb.

Tyrus Harris (second left) receives a kiss from his grandmother Patricia Johnson as his mother Melodie Harris (second right) hugs his girlfriend Shacara Pierce on Saturday, May 1, 2015, at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital. Harris, a senior at Omaha North High School who was shot three times a block from the school in March, received a surprise prom from his family and friends.

Thirteen-year-old Nicole Coffey (left) of West Friendship gets surprised by a double volley of water from the hoses of Joe Ingegneri, 11 (top) of Mt. Airy, and Nick Boeh, 10 (right) of Glenwood as she attempts to clean her pigs in time for the market auction Wednesday night at the Howard County Fair.

As the Benediction is performed by Reverend Joe Ehrmann, James Weems III (right) looks up towards the sky as he is held by his father, Baltimore City police officer James Weems Jr. during Fallen Heroes Day at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens. Weems' wife had been engaged to a Baltimore City police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 1986.

Several silky strands of Canada geese flying in a "V" formation head southward under the contrails of passenger jet during a unseasonably warm day in Lincoln, Neb. on Thursday, March 14, 2013, at Seacrest Field.

A quintet of young lads wade in the waters of Oak Lake as they wait for the start of the Fourth of July fireworks display at Oak Lake Park.

Eight-year-old Piper Stienike of Omaha settles comfortably into her father, Army CW2 Steve Stienike's, arms as he's interviewed on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, after arriving back at the Penterman Armory after a nearly year-long deployment to Afghanistan.

Strategically positioned between two Jersey cows, Sean Mayer, 10 of Taneytown, Maryland aims a rubber band at a friend in the cow barn at the Howard County Fair.

A child reaches out accept the candy cane proffered by Santa Claus Saturday evening at the Locust Lane Stage off of Main Street in Westminster. The event marked the kickoff of the holiday season with the annual tree lighting and a performance of seasonal songs by the Westminster Municipal Band.

Laura Stueck (right) and her husband, Darin, with Orlando, her self-described "favorite horse" and Blu on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, at the Still Waters Ranch in Hickman, Neb. Both horses were among the dozen or so those who escaped an early morning fire at the ranch's huge horse barn (seen in the rear).

A glum April Francinques ponders the remodeling work her husband Brent (top) did on the family's bathroom as her daughter, Tiffany, stands idly by.

An embarrassed Corey Taylor (center), 12, stands by as Panthers coach Melvin Jordan (right) scrutinizes his haircut at practice. "Where'd you leave your hair," Jordan asked. "At the barbershop," answered Taylor. To which the coach replied, "You mean you actually paid someone to clean your head?"