Cole Brings Plenty, an actor who starred in “1923,” a spin-off of the popular TV western “Yellowstone,” was found dead after going missing as part of a domestic violence investigation in Kansas, the government said Friday.
The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office said on social media that officials discovered the body of a 27-year-old man in a wooded domain on April 5. Detectives were dispatched around 11:45 a. m. local time to investigate an empty car in Homestead. . Lane, said the sheriff’s workplace.
Investigators and the medical examiner were at the scene, but no details about the cause of death have been released. Two days earlier, Brings Plenty had been charged in a nearby county with robbery with force, domestic assault and criminal coercion. A warrant for his arrest has been issued.
Lawrence City Police said officers responded Sunday to an apartment where a woman screaming for help and Brings Plenty had left before they arrived. Traffic cameras showed him leaving the city without delay after the incident, heading south on Highway 59, Lawrence police said. He was driving a 2005 Ford Explorer with Kansas license plates.
She then missed an audition for an upcoming film that was scheduled for Monday morning on Zoom, her agent, Peter Yanke of Phirgun Mair Worldwide, said this week. Authorities said they used drones to search for the missing actor.
Brings Plenty’s father, Joe, said Friday that he was grateful to everyone “for the prayers and positive mind they sent for Cole. “
“This week I learned how many other people know the goodness of downtown Cole and love it,” said Joe Brings Plenty Sr.
Cole Brings Plenty made the impression in two episodes of the first season of “1923,” a Paramount series starring Harrison Ford that is a prequel to the Paramount Network hit “Yellowstone. “He also recently had small roles in two other INSP TV westerns. “Into the Wild Frontier” and “The Tales of Jim Bridger. “
His uncle Mo Brings Plenty is a star of “Yellowstone” and acts as a cultural adviser for Native American issues in that series and in “1923. “He posted a flyer about his nephew’s disappearance on Instagram and police said his family had reported it. The youngest guy is missing.