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Senior official kills man, says he hit doe

2020-09-14T21:43:49.956Z


The South Dakota Attorney General said he hit a doe while driving his car on Saturday night when in fact he ran over a pedestrian whose body was not found until the next day, the Public Safety Department reported of this American state. Jason Ravnsborg, a 44-year-old Republican elected official who heads the judicial services of this rural state in the north of the country, maintains that he did


The South Dakota Attorney General said he hit a doe while driving his car on Saturday night when in fact he ran over a pedestrian whose body was not found until the next day, the Public Safety Department reported of this American state.

Jason Ravnsborg, a 44-year-old Republican elected official who heads the judicial services of this rural state in the north of the country, maintains that he did not realize that he had hit a human being.

The victim, Joseph Boever, was 55 and was not located until Sunday morning.

Jason Ravnsborg was not injured.

The homicide was confirmed by Republican Governor of South Dakota Kristi Noem in a press conference on Sunday.

“The Attorney General was involved in a collision,”

Kristi Noem said.

“There is a deceased person”

.

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The state's public safety department did not say when or how Jason Ravnsborg reported to Sheriff's Department that he had hit a doe.

The accident happened at 10:30 p.m. Saturday, after the prosecutor walked out of an election fundraising dinner.

The investigation was entrusted to the local road brigade.

The relatives of the victim, however, expressed their fears that the case would be covered up, including a possible hit-and-run.

They deplored not having been called until Sunday around 7:30 p.m. to identify the body.

"A doe does not look like a human,"

said Victor Nemec, a cousin of Joseph Boever, quoted by the

Rapid City Journal

.

A spokesman for the South Dakota Department of Public Safety did not say whether the attorney general had taken a blood alcohol test.

Jason Ravnsborg received six speeding fines between 2014 and 2018, and he was guilty of several other traffic offenses, including one for not wearing a seat belt, according to the Sioux Falls Argus Leader newspaper.

Source: lefigaro

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