DCI, sheriff investigating Custer County homicide

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) -The South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation and the Custer County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a Friday homicide in Custer County. The South Dakota Attorney General’s Office says the Custer County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a homicide Friday night at 9:47pm at a home west of Custer on U.S. Highway 16. When they arrived, they found a man who had been killed. A woman who was also assaulted in the incident drove herself to the hospital. The Attorney Generals’ Office say DCI identified a male suspect and says he was eventually stopped after a pursuit in Larimer County, Colorado and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound The names of the people involved are not being released at this time.

The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado says when law enforcement tried to contact the suspect in his pickup truck, he drove south on I-25. They say the suspect shot at law enforcement and continued heading south at high speeds, with Larimer County Sheriff’s office deputies performing a PIT technique to stop the vehicle just south of the Wellington exit.. The Sheriff’s Office says the man stayed inside the truck and shot himself before they could contact him ad he was pronounced dead at the scene. Southbound I-25 at the Wellington exit was closed for about five hours.

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