An armed piece inward the parking lot of a Rapid City, S.D. gaming locus was shot drained past officers Tues dark after he fired at police. The shooter initially was brandishing a firearm and shot inwards the lot before cops arrived, police revealed.
The threatening behaviour continued when officers got on the scene.
The topic … fired at the police force officers with a handgun,” Rapid City Police Chief Don River Hedrick said inwards a picture posted on Facebook. “One of our police cars was struck at least unity time, but perchance trine times.”
The officers returned fire. The hired gun was killed.
“This appears to be … [an] aggress on … law officers at this time,” Hedrick said.
“I, for one, am thankful that none of the police force officers were offend or injured tonight after being fired upon,” Hedrick added.
The gunslinger was not named. It is potential his organic structure will undergo an autopsy.
Also, Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom said on that point was an striking stock-purchase warrant for the gunslinger for a prior assault on law enforcement charge.
The gambling casino was non identified past police. It took position inwards the 1500 block of Haines Avenue. There is ace casino there, called Chances Casino. It could not follow confirmed straightaway whether that was the cassino where the shot occurred.
Shooting Under Review
The incident will live reviewed by the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI). This is monetary standard procedure, given it was an officer-involved shooting.
There were 15 witnesses inward the parking lot at the clip of the incident, authorities said. They will live interviewed by investigators.
Many societal media posters praised the officers for their response. They also thanked that no victims nor officers were injured during the shooting.
One notice on Facebook, identified as George Lucas Good Shield, recalled the story of the casino, and said, “I think back before it was built, the community of interests voted against it. It’s no more serious for nobody. It should be gone after something similar this!”
Prior Incidents
Rapid City casinos experience seen several robberies and other wild incidents inward recent years.
In May, a South Dakota teenager supercharged inward link with a March 19 fatal shot at the Grand Gateway Hotel, a Rapid City hotel-casino, pleaded not shamefaced to second-degree murder. Quincy Bear Robe, 19, is accused of firing the bullet that killed Myron Pourier, also 19.
In December, Nicholas Gracie Butler, 19, pled shamed to first-degree robbery in connectedness with the Mar 2021 robbery at Joker’s Casino in Rapid City. Butler faces upward to 25 years inwards prison. He could pay upwards to $50,000 inward fines.
Also charged inwards the Joker’s Casino holdup were two women: Shannon Larive, 25, and Karmen Englert, 36. The triple of robbers allegedly used a scattergun inwards the heist.
Also, inward March 2021 Larive and Englert allegedly robbed South Dakota’s Market Square Casino. Larive also allegedly robbed Mt. Rushmore Casino, also situated in the state.
In Mar 2019, II casinos were apiece the view of robberies — i attempted and i successfully carried out. In ace case, Quintez Provancial, 27, of Rapid City, allegedly tried to slip money from a cash in drawer and attempted to sexually assault a adult female inwards a bathroom at Happy Jacks Casino, which sits inwards a strip mall. When police searched his clothes, they found her electric cell phone, which she had told officers earlier that he had stolen during their struggle.
Provancial was supercharged with second-degree robbery, second-degree rape, and off-key imprisonment.
Also, an unidentified adult male scooped upwardly money from a cash in register at the Joker’s Casino, 1320 Mount Mt. Rushmore Road, after brandishing a pistol.
It is non at once known how cases were adjudicated inward court.