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.
