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State Attorney General Told Officers He'd Hit A Deer... In Reality, A Man Is Now Dead

Man killed while AG drove home from fundraiser.

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South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was driving home from a Republican fundraiser on Saturday when he hit what he told Hyde County authorities was a deer. On Sunday, it was revealed that Ravnsborg had actually struck and killed 55-year-old Joe Boever, who was walking along the side of the road.

Ravnsborg, who has a history of automobile infractions, had been at Rooster’s Bar and Grill, where attendees were buying tickets to win a handgun engraved with President Trump’s name. It’s a detail that may not directly bear on this tragedy, but it speaks to the cruel frivolity of these folks that someone is dead because a bunch of yahoos went to a bar to win a vanity handgun.

According to the NY Post:

Ravnsborg “drinks lightly,” [spokesman Tim] Bormann said, but the attorney general’s spokesman said he didn’t think Ravnsborg was imbibing at the event, the Rapid City Journal reports.

OK, sure.

While the South Dakota Highway Patrol is leading the investigation, officers from North Dakota have joined the effort due to the inherent conflicts involved in probing the state’s chief law enforcement officer in a killing.

Obviously our thoughts are with Boever’s family.

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South Dakota AG involved in deadly crash after GOP event [NY Post]
Documents: South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has history of speeding [Argus Leader]

HeadshotJoe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.

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