Rapid City Police identify victim of weekend homicide

RAPID CITY, S.D. – Police in Rapid City have made an arrest in a fatal assault at a local motel and identified the victim Monday.

Officers were sent to the motel Saturday about 10 p.m. on a report of an assault and found the victim in a room unresponsive.

Emergency responders determined the man had died. Investigators spoke with a number of witnesses who identified a 29-year-old suspect.

Police found the man, identified as Lawrence Mexican, sleeping near a Civic Center parking lot and arrested him early Sunday morning.

Police say they found blood on the suspect’s shoes and socks.

Authorities identified the victim today as 48-year-old Harry Blackbear. They did not say how Blackbear was killed.

Mexican was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder and taken to the Pennington County Jail.

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