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and Girls Clubs, building a wellness center and improving sanitary sewer systems.
• The Community Development Block Grant is a reimbursement program, and communities receive funds as work is finished.
• The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development funds the CDBG Program, and the Governor's Office of Economic Development administers it.
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Pastor: Boy feigned death to survive ND killings
JAMES MacPHERSON,Associated Press
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Twelve-year-old Christian Schuster survived a deadly shooting in North Dakota by feigning death as he lay under his slain brother's body, and an 8-year-old sister was spared because she was down the street sledding on a snowy hill, the family's pastor said.
• The Rev. Grant Patterson told The Associated Press that he spoke to the young boy just about an hour after his grandmother and three of his siblings were shot dead Sunday afternoon in their home in New Town, on the Fort Berthold reservation.
• Martha Johnson, 64, and three of her grandchildren -- Benjamin Schuster, 13, Julia Schuster, 10, and Luke Schuster, 6 -- were killed, Mountrail County Sheriff Ken Halvorson said. He described a man who committed suicide hours later as a "person of interest" in the slayings.
• Christian Schuster saw the man who entered his home but didn't recognize him, said Patterson, pastor of the Bethel Lutheran Church in New Town. When the shots rang out, one of his brothers fell on him.
• "He laid there and played dead until the shooter left the house," Patterson said. Ava Schuster, 8, also may have been killed had she been home, the pastor said.
• "She was sledding on a hill a block from her house with a bunch of her pals," Patterson said. "If not for sledding hills, she may also have been murdered."
• The slayings have attracted widespread interest in North Dakota, where homicides are rare. Only 24 murders and non-negligent manslaughters occurred in 2011.
• Halvorson on Tuesday identified Kalcie Eagle, 21, of New Town, as the man who'd committed suicide in nearby Parshall hours after the slayings. Eagle, who lived a block from the Johnson family, stabbed himself Sunday night at a friend's home about 20 miles away.
• The FBI is leading the investigation into the deaths because the federal government has jurisdiction over crimes on reservations. FBI spokesman Kyle Loven would not confirm that investigators were looking at Eagle.
• He said it was unlikely the FBI would release any information on the shootings or (Continued on page 20)
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