RAPID CITY, S.D. – The last three codefendants in the alleged sexual assault of a Mitchell Legion baseball teammate have reached plea deals with the state.
Karter Sibson, 18, Hudson Haley, 19, and Landon Waddell, 20, pleaded guilty to accessory to a felony in Pennington County court. Their charges were reduced from second-degree rape and aiding and abetting second-degree rape, which carry up to 50 years in prison each, to a Class 5 felony with a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Previously, Lincoln Bates, Carter Miller, and Peyton Mandel entered similar plea deals. All charges except accessory to a felony have been dismissed, with probationary sentences recommended and agreements to testify in future hearings. The defendants may seek a suspended imposition of sentence, which would remove the felony conviction from their records.
The charges originate from a June 2023 incident at a Rapid City hotel, where the players allegedly assaulted a teammate and tried to cover it up using electronic communication. Coach Luke Norden was recently acquitted of related charges, and charges against Mitchell Baseball Association president Jeremy Borgan were dismissed.
During the hearing, Waddell’s attorney requested modifications to his client’s bond for travel and college visits, which were granted by Judge Robert Gusinsky.
The no-contact order against one victim was lifted due to the dismissal of related charges, but it remains in place for the other victim.
Sentencing for all six defendants is set for August 13 at 3:30 p.m.
PIERRE, S.D. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) – As of July 1st, several varieties of intoxicating hemp products are illegal to sell or produce in the state of South Dakota.
That doesn’t necessarily put them out of reach for South Dakotans.
It also doesn’t mean death for the market in alternative intoxicants that’s emerged across South Dakota and the nation in part thanks to a loophole in the 2018 federal farm bill, which legalized hemp.
Even if all the products now banned through the actions of the South Dakota Legislature last winter are pulled from store shelves in the state – an open question as the law takes effect – buyers can purchase them online with little fear of repercussion, as their possession isn’t prohibited through the new law.
The law targets synthetically produced delta-8, delta-9, delta-10, THC-O, THC-P and HHC. Each are chemical cousins of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the high-inducing compound in cannabis flowers.
Sellers or producers of the hemp-derived products could be charged with a class 2 misdemeanor – the lowest-level crime in the state, punishable by up to 30 days in jail.
But the testing necessary to prove any product violates the law has limits and requires wait times for local law enforcement. The state’s largest policing agencies have no immediate plans to prioritize enforcement.
That puts the onus on retailers to follow a law that would cut into revenues or force them out of business.
A federal lawsuit from Pierre-based Hemp Quarters 605 is also in play. The company attempted to block the new law as an unconstitutional overreach that interferes with the interstate commerce permitted under the federal farm bill. But U.S. District Judge Eric Schulte declined to issue a preliminary injunction.
Even without the injunction, though, the company’s lawsuit will proceed and could eventually upend the law.
Caleb Rose of Rapid City owns Black Hills Vapors and recently founded a trade group called South Dakota Retailers for Better Alternatives to advocate for stores that sell hemp-derived products.
Rose said he planned to pull the targeted products from the shelves of his West River stores, but the lack of certainty could mean other retailers opt to ignore the new law.
“I think everybody in town and everybody in the state is going to have to make their own calls and consult their lawyers on what they want to do,” Rose said.
Testing complications
Questions of enforcement are tied to product testing. A can of gummies on a retailer’s shelf might say “delta-8,” but prosecutors would have to prove the product is illegal beyond a reasonable doubt.
Doing that requires testing, which for the newly illegal substances involves a waiting period for local officers and prosecutors. There are field tests for some felony-level narcotics like methamphetamine, and some agencies can test for the presence of the active ingredient in traditional cannabis, but there are no such tests for products like hemp-derived gummies or delta-8 vape pens. For those, police would rely on the state Department of Health lab.
That lab can distinguish between delta-8, delta-9 and delta-10 THC, according to spokesperson Tia Kafka.
But there is no test that can show with certainty that the chemicals present in any particular product are naturally or synthetically derived. To run afoul of the new law, the offending chemical must have been altered from its original state. In theory, products with high levels of the chemicals would be legal if they were naturally derived.
Kafka said that shouldn’t prevent police from making a call on enforcement. Delta-8 is only found in small amounts naturally, so Kafka said high levels of those compounds would be enough to show that they’ve been modified and are therefore illegal to sell.
Even if a product claims to contain unaltered, unadulterated delta-8, Kafka wrote that testing can help triangulate an intoxicant’s origin.
Products with synthetically produced hemp chemicals “often have contaminants from the chemical reaction which can be an indicator that a product is not 100% natural,” Kafka said.
The legalization of hemp and medical marijuana has already slowed the pace of cannabis testing at the state lab, though. In 2020, the state conducted 807 tests for cannabis. Last year, the lab did 99.
“Following legalization of industrial hemp and medical cannabis, state laws changed significantly leading to reduced cannabis testing,” she said.
Law enforcement awaits guidance
It’s unclear if the new law will spur more law enforcement interest in lab testing, but agencies have given no indication that enforcement will become a priority.
Decisions on enforcement come at the local level, Attorney General Marty Jackley said.
There are no plans to push for investigations of shops or hemp products from the state level just because they’re sold in hundreds of stores, he said.
No business can be searched or spot-checked for compliance with the law without probable cause and a warrant, he said.
“What I can tell you is the Legislature took certain action. They made certain conduct illegal,” Jackley said. “Law enforcement’s job is to enforce that. We don’t do anything special with respect to that.”
In the Hemp Quarters 605 lawsuit, court records show that the Hughes County State’s Attorney’s Office does not intend to immediately prosecute the company’s owners for violations of the new law.
Sioux Falls Police Department spokesperson Sam Clemens said his agency awaits guidance from the Minnehaha County State Attorney’s Office on what kinds of enforcement actions it might need to take to enforce the new misdemeanor.
Minnehaha County State’s Attorney Daniel Haggar has not offered guidance on enforcement, though. He told South Dakota Searchlight that his office will evaluate any cases brought by police to determine if prosecutions are necessary.
Katy Urban, spokesperson for the Pennington County State’s Attorney’s Office, offered a similar response by email. She wrote that prosecutors in Rapid City will consider the merits of any case presented to them by police agencies.
Rapid City Police Department spokesperson Brendyn Medina, meanwhile, said his agency awaits enforcement guidance from the Pennington County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Even if law enforcement were to doggedly investigate the sale of newly illegal products, plenty of other avenues for a legal high remain, both for sellers and users.
Other non-hemp products include kratom, kava and magic mushroom hallucinogens, the latter of which are produced with different mushrooms from the federally illegal fungus psilocybin. Some classes of non-alcoholic, hemp-derived beverages, available in bars, restaurants and grocery stores around the state, will also remain available.
Joshua Williston manages a Chasing Clouds vape and smoke shop in Sioux Falls, and said late last week he’d remove the now-banned products from the shelf by July 1. Chasing Clouds is a chain store, and he said anything unsold and illegal today will be shipped off for sale in states without a ban.
Williston expects customers who relied on those products will either get medical marijuana cards, buy recreational marijuana on the black market or find other ways to get high.
“It’s probably going to slow business down, but it ain’t gonna stop,” Williston said. “It’ll pick back up in other areas, because once it’s no longer an option, people will just find other things to substitute it with.”
Sponsor: Federal fix needed
Rep. Brian Mulder, R-Sioux Falls, was the new law’s prime sponsor. He told South Dakota Searchlight he understands his bill’s practical limitations, but that he’s hopeful most retailers will reduce the supply of near-pot intoxicants by complying with the law.
He’s also hopeful because of ongoing discussions in Washington, D.C., about the next federal farm bill. Congress has debated the next version of that bill for more than a year, and a provision added by the U.S. House Agriculture Committee in May aims to close the loophole that created the market by drawing a legal distinction between hemp grown for chemical extraction and hemp grown to produce things like food or fiber.
Congress has already extended its deadline for passage of the farm bill once. The deadline for passage is now September.
“However quickly that could go into law, it might be moot here in South Dakota for us to try to address anything else,” Mulder said.
Requests for comment sent to all three members of South Dakota’s congressional delegation on the farm bill and hemp went unanswered.
Mulder, who works with an organization called Volunteers of America that offers chemical dependency services, said lawmakers in South Dakota want to do what he thinks the federal government meant to do with the 2018 farm bill.
The feds didn’t mean to legalize weed with a loophole, he said.
“We were trying to deliver something that was the true intent of the 2018 farm bill, where hemp products were being sold for fiber, fabrics, building materials and some of the therapeutics made with CBD,” he said.
WAGNER, S.D. – A 40 year old man from Wagner man has pleaded guilty but mentally ill and has been sentenced for threatening two public officials.
Jason Shields entered guilty pleas Friday in Charles Mix County Circuit Court to one count of Threatening the Governor and one count of Threatening a Judge. The charges occurred in October 2022.
Prosecutors requested that Shields be sentenced to the maximum of 10 years in prison. He was sentenced to five years in prison on each count and credit for 614 days already served. All jail time was suspended, and Shields was placed on probation for four years.
The court based its decision on Senate Bill 70, approved by the 2013 South Dakota Legislature. It determined a probationary sentence should be presumed for non-violent offenders. Prosecutors argued Shields was a danger to the community and not entitled to presumptive probation.
“Threatening the Governor and a Judge are serious offenses, and ones that will be prosecuted,” said Attorney General Jackley. “The use of Senate Bill 70 in this manner speaks to the need for the upcoming Legislature to consider changes to the presumptive probation statute.”
The South Dakota Highway Patrol and the Charles Mix County Sheriff’s Office first responded to the threats. The case was handled by the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation, Wagner Police Department, and Charles Mix County Sheriff’s Office.
The Attorney General’s Office prosecuted the case.
HARRISBURG, S.D. (Mariia Novoselia/South Dakota News Watch) – This bedroom community just south of Sioux Falls transformed over the past couple of decades into the fastest-growing South Dakota city of more than 5,000 people, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau and Population Division report.
Harrisburg’s population ballooned by 37.8%, or more than 2,500 residents, between July 1, 2020, and July 1, 2023, the report said. Nearby Tea was just behind with 29.9% growth followed by Box Elder, just east of Rapid City, with a 16.2% increase over the time frame.
After teaching first grade for 14 years in Brookings, Julie LeFebvre needed a fresh start and found it in Harrisburg.
“I applied for a job down here, and I got it right away,” LeFebvre said. “With the way that things transitioned so smoothly, I felt like it was meant to be.”
Eighteen cities in the state now have populations of at least 5,000, but not all grew between 2020 and 2023. Brandon, just east of Sioux Falls, saw a slight decrease in its population, as did Aberdeen, Madison, Mitchell, Pierre and Sturgis, the Census said.
South Dakota population unlikely to drop
Despite decreases in some cities, South Dakota’s overall population grew by 8.9%, or almost 72,500 people, from 2010 to 2020, to 886,667, the U.S. Census Bureau said.
Augustana University economics professor David Sorenson used data from the Internal Revenue Service to examine migration into and from South Dakota in his most recent article for the Dakota Institute. According to the piece, in 2020-2021, more than 25,600 people moved between counties within South Dakota.
Additionally, Sorenson wrote that while 23,000 people from South Dakota relocated to a different state, more than 29,000 chose the Mount Rushmore State as their new place of residence, increasing the population by 6,000 and raising the state’s net migration rate to 0.8. The only state in the region with a higher net migration is Montana.
Notably, over the years, Minnesota has contributed the most to migration into South Dakota. Minnesota also seems to have been the state of preference for people looking to move out of South Dakota. In an interview with News Watch, Sorenson said that the Gravity Model, which is similar to Newton’s law of gravitation, can explain this trend.
The attraction between two places depends on their sizes and the distance between them, Sorenson said. With Minnesota being a neighboring state with the largest population in the region, its persistent interaction with South Dakota comes as no surprise.
While Sorenson wrote that “there is no guarantee of favorable continuing patterns” in terms of population spikes in the future, he said it is also unlikely that the number of South Dakotan residents will decrease.
Sorenson said the population in the state may expand further thanks to factors like the natural increase, or the difference between births and deaths, which reached 2,800 in 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
West River to grow, led by Box Elder
Another South Dakota city seeing a major population surge is Box Elder, where Ellsworth Air Force Base is located.
The U.S. Census Bureau said its population more than quadrupled over the past 30 years, from 2,700 in 1990 to 11,900 in 2020. Rapid growth has continued with the official population listed at almost 13,900 in 2023 and steady growth continuing since then.
The city, which straddles Interstate 90, is poised for even more growth because it was chosen in 2021 as the main base of operations and training location for the Air Force’s new B-21 Raider bomber program.
The B-21 is a $700 million long-range stealth jet with nuclear capabilities that is intended to replace the B-1B Lancer bomber currently based at Ellsworth.
Col. Derek Oakley, commander of the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth, said at a meeting in Rapid City in November 2023 that the Air Force will embark on nearly three dozen individual construction projects on the base at an estimated cost of at least $1.5 billion.
The B-21 program will add more than 4,000 new military personnel, families and civilian workers to the base over the next 20 years, Oakley said.
The Air Force projected in its B-21 Economic Impact Statement that development of the new bomber program at Ellsworth will create nearly 600 local jobs and almost $24 million in local economic impact. Once the bombers arrive, some state officials estimate the program will create an annual benefit of $480 million to the state.
As of February, nearly 300 new housing units were under construction in Box Elder, and the city has seen recent development of new banks, restaurants and other commercial business. It’s also planning to build a $60 million elementary school to further accommodate the anticipated growth.
In fast-growing Box Elder, S.D., the school district has tried to keep up with new enrollment and plans to build a new elementary school in the next couple years. Existing schools, including the high school shown on Feb. 21, 2024, are also relatively new. (Photo: Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch)
Monument Health of Rapid City is also preparing for population increases in Box Elder by building a pair of new urgent care clinics in or near the city.
The health group said it has begun construction on a primary and emergency care clinic on 2.1 acres near Liberty Plaza. It will also open an urgent care clinic in Rapid Valley, a community southwest of Box Elder, in 2025, according to a news release.
“As the needs of the community grow, including supporting the mission at Ellsworth Air Force Base, Monument Health remains committed to being a trusted partner in ensuring the health and well-being of our neighbors,” said Mark Schulte, Monument Health vice president of operations.
Lincoln County is keeping pace
Lincoln County, which is home to both Harrisburg and Tea, has seen an increase in population too.
According to a U.S. Census Bureau report from March, the county’s population grew by 11.6% from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2023. In western South Dakota, Custer County and Lawrence County are runners up with increases by 9.4% and 8.5% respectively.
Jim Schmidt has been on the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners for over 25 years. He said when he got the job first, the population of Harrisburg was under 500 people and no one paid much attention to Lincoln County because of how rural it was.
Schmidt said the growth of Sioux Falls fuels population increases in Lincoln County, which is why he believes it is important for the county to be “more of a participant in the future of how the whole (Sioux Falls) area is going to develop.”
A lot of residents have taken issue with a new men’s prison planned for the county because of safety concerns, he said. But many of the people who will work there are likely to relocate to Lincoln County, increasing the population and housing demand, Schmidt said.
COVID-19 leaves a legacy in state
Normally, Harrisburg sells about 14 houses a month, said Brady Daly, director of agent services at Hegg Realtors.
When News Watch spoke with him at the end of May, 64 houses were on the real estate market. This, Daly explained, means that, in theory, it would take about 4 1/2 months to sell all of those houses.
The number of months of inventory can help estimate whether an entity has a seller’s or a buyer’s market.
Historically, a well-balanced market has six months of inventory, Daly said. Anything below that number would be considered a seller’s market where there are fewer houses and more people willing to buy real estate. In a buyer’s market, on the other hand, those willing to purchase some property have more control.
Even though Harrisburg’s 4 1/2 months of inventory means it is still a seller’s market, Daly said it is “aggressively close to a buyer’s market.”
At the same time, Daly said it is tough to find an affordable spot for a first-time homebuyer in Harrisburg. A lot of new construction is “higher-end houses,” which is why they do not sell out as fast, raising the number of months of inventory.
Some of the current demand stems in part from the pandemic, said Harrisburg Mayor Derick Wenck. A significant number of people started moving to South Dakota in 2020, many of them young families, he said.
“People were just fleeing areas where their schools were shut down and everything was closed up. Whereas in South Dakota, we shut down for just a little bit but then opened everything back up,” Wenck said. “We had people that were buying houses sight unseen, and just moved away from everything. It was crazy.”
While leading through the first few months of the pandemic was peculiar, soon enough “it was like any other day,” Wenck said. “I felt like we were in a weird area where (COVID-19) was there, but nobody was scared of it.”
Even with the pandemic in the past, Harrisburg’s population continues to grow, and Wenck said there is no sign of it slowing down.
The increasing number of residents has brought a variety of companies to Harrisburg. A coffee shop, a gas station and a hotel are among some of the businesses set to open later this year. One of Wenck’s goals is to attract enough businesses so that people from Harrisburg will not have to go to Sioux Falls to shop.
In addition to making Harrisburg appealing to business owners and young families, Wenck said he and his team have been working on Harrisburg’s infrastructure. Last year, the city spent $12 million on enhancements that included sewer line upgrades, paving a mile stretch of a gravel road and installing a roundabout, he said.
This summer, the city plans to invest $10 million in infrastructure improvements, including storm drain projects and more paving, Wenck said.
Harrisburg residents offer a helping hand
Before moving to Harrisburg, LeFebvre did a lot of research about the school district, not only because she wanted to work there but also because she wanted her two children to get a good education.
She had visited the city several times for her children’s activities, such as a trip to the apple orchard or a sporting event. Harrisburg had “some cool features for just a small little town,” LeFebvre concluded.
Among them were people’s friendliness and willingness to help. Being “a hop, skip, and a jump away from a big city” is another, she said.
At the same time, LeFebvre said she wishes there were a new family restaurant in town.
“If you ask a typical person, ‘What are they building in Harrisburg?’ They’re gonna say it’s either a gas station or townhomes or apartments. But I understand those things are important too,” LeFebvre said.
In July 2022, LeFebvre relocated to a bigger house within Harrisburg. This fall, she will start her sixth year teaching first graders in the Harrisburg School District.
School district appeal transcends city limits
When JoAnne VerMulm, director of communications at the Harrisburg School District, walked in through the doors of the high school for the first time in the fall of 2009, she was surprised by the size of the hallways.
She said they seemed too big for the number of children who studied there. At the time, VerMulm worked as a computer teacher and technology integrationist. She said in addition to teaching classes of her own, her responsibilities included facilitating students and teachers with using technology.
“It was a needed position in our district – just with all of our growth,” VerMulm said.
According to the 2023-2024 Harrisburg School District annual report, the number of students enrolled has been growing steadily since the 2000-2001 academic year.
In the fall of 2023, the count of all enrolled students topped 6,000. Compared to the 2000-2001 academic year, the student body has grown by 674.6%.
VerMulm said when she began working for the school district in 2009, there were 425 high school students. In contrast, last year, there were more than 480 first-year high schoolers alone.
“Now it makes a lot of sense why those hallways were as wide as they were,” VerMulm said. “They were anticipating a lot of growth.”
Two-thirds of Harrisburg students live in Sioux Falls
The Harrisburg School District has been building new facilities “almost every other year,” VerMulm said. This upcoming fall, a new building will replace the old Liberty Elementary School because it has been exceeding its capacity.
“Change is one thing that’s constant in our district because we have experienced growth for the last two decades,” said Tim Graf, who just completed his fifth year as the superintendent of the Harrisburg School District.
Reinventing Liberty Elementary, however, should be the last addition to the school district for the foreseeable future. Graf said that opening new buildings can be “an extra burden on taxpayers,” so the school district has been trying to use the money as efficiently as possible and that the local community has been supportive.
According to the 2022 Recap report from the South Dakota Property Tax Portal, Lincoln County levied $131.8 million in property taxes that year, with schools receiving 62.3% of it.
Data from the report show that Lincoln County ranks third in terms of the amount of money collected. Ahead of it are Pennington County, which levied more than $186 million in 2022, and Minnehaha County, which collected $320 million. Together, the money from these three counties amounted to 41.7% of the $1.5 billion collected in property taxes statewide.
The Harrisburg School District spans seven elementary schools, three middle schools, one high school and a Freshman Academy. Some, like Harrisburg Journey Elementary School, are located within the Sioux Falls city limits.
“A lot of times I get asked: ‘Why have we moved our district into the city of Sioux Falls?’” Graf said. He then explained that school district lines were drawn “generations ago” and the city of Sioux Falls “has just grown into the Harrisburg School District.”
Currently, almost two-thirds of all students in the district live in Sioux Falls, Graf said. This may explain why the number of enrolled students nearly equaled the number of all Harrisburg residents in 2002.
Staffing remains a problem
One of the challenges that Graf said the school district faces is staffing. Despite the ongoing teacher shortage in the state, which was previously reported on by News Watch, Graf said that a bigger problem is finding support staff.
“We’re fortunate in the teacher-regard in that we’re located in the Sioux (Falls) metro area and we’re a pretty progressive school district,” Graf said. At the same time, the proximity creates competition that makes finding supporting staff a challenge.
In spite of these and other challenges, Graf remains optimistic.
“With growth comes opportunities, and that has allowed us to be innovative and progressive,” he said. “We have embraced change – that’s been who we are and what we do.”
Born in eastern Iowa, Renee Rebnord moved to South Dakota for college. She lives in Sioux Falls but plans to move in late July to Harrisburg, where she has been working since 1980.
“When I started, I knew every staff member from K through 12 and every kid from seventh grade through 12,” Rebnord said. “Now, when you have almost 500 kids in a class, that’s pretty much impossible to do.”
Rebnord first retired from her job as an English teacher in 2012 but then returned to teach a leadership and service class and substitute for colleagues.
“The students and families of Harrisburg as well as the staff – they’ve always been amazing and supportive,” Rebnord said. “For me, it was a dream job.”
Currently, she works as an administrative assistant in the principal’s office, helping with dual credit registration, appointments, ACT scores and other tasks.
Graf said what makes the Harrisburg School District unique is a variety of personalized learning programs, or pathways. For example, in the 2023-2024 academic year, almost 50 students completed internships with local businesses and organizations. A lot of interns go on to become employees of those companies, he said.
Projections underestimated Harrisburg growth
Originally from the northeast South Dakota town of Gary, Dale Thorpe moved to Harrisburg with his wife and three children in 1971 after living in Minneapolis and Sioux Falls. Thorpe worked in construction and in 1984 joined the Harrisburg School Board.
Thorpe said he spent nine years on the board, and everyone got along. Some issues, however, created disagreement.
“We wanted to build new schools, but the community said, ‘We don’t want to build schools because if we build schools, we are going to grow and we don’t want to grow. We want to be small Harrisburg.’ We said, ‘We don’t have a choice,’” Thorpe recalled.
Years later, Thorpe said the way the community feels about population increases has changed and added that the growth the school board projected was “way less” than what recent U.S. Census Bureau reports show.
“I don’t rub their noses in it, but they know we were right,” he said.
Thorpe has been volunteering for the Chamber of Commerce for over 10 years. He said he likes to know what is going on and meeting new people. Much like LeFebvre, he pointed out that he would like to see a new restaurant in town but added that what appeals to him is how friendly the community is and how safe he feels in town.
“It’s a great place to live in,” Thorpe said. “It’s rural America at as good as it can get.”
STURGIS, S.D. – A weekend shooting involving a Sturgis Police Officer resulted in no injuries and one arrest. On June 30, 2024, at approximately 1145 pm, the Sturgis Police Department responded to a shooting on the east side of the Public Safety Building, just off 4th Street in Sturgis SD.
A subject, who was identified as Frederick Wilson Jr, age 20 of Sturgis SD, was seen shooting at the Public Safety Building. Wilson was confronted by a Sturgis Police Officer who fired multiple rounds at Wilson. Wilson fled the area but was quickly apprehended near 3rd Street by Sturgis Police Officers. No one was injured in the shooting, and the damage to the building was limited to windows only. In addition, there were explosive components found near the entry doors of the building, which were not detonated.
“The safety of the public here in Sturgis is always a paramount concern,” said Sturgis Chief of Police Geody Vandewater. “I am pleased the quick and determined response of our team prevented this incident from escalating and prevented Wilson from carrying out other acts of violence in this community. We will always be ready to do the right thing.”
Meade County Sheriff Pat West added, “These are challenging times where violence against law enforcement has become all too terribly common. This act committed last night was far and away a targeted attack on law enforcement. We will not be deterred. We are committed to providing the best trained and professional law enforcement personnel for our communities. We will repair the building and forge ahead with the job we have been called to do.”
The investigation into this incident has been handed over to the SD Division of Criminal Investigation.
