RAPID CITY, S.D. – A north Rapid City neighborhood is again rocked by violence as police report a homicide that occurred late Saturday night.
Rapid City Police ChiefDon Hedrick says officers responded to 20 Surfwood Drive just after 11:00 p.m. for a report of multiple gunshots heard inside the apartment building.
On arrival, police located a male subject that had been shot inside an apartment. A medical unit was called and transported the unidentified male to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
During the course of the investigation, Hedrick says police developed information that the suspects responsible for the shooting are associated with two different residences in the area. The city and county Special Response Team, or S-R-T, was called in to the neighborhood to serve search warrants on two residences on Surfwood Drive and Knollwood Drive. As a result of those searches, no arrests had been made as of yet.
Police say they have no reason to believe the shooting was random in nature and no ongoing public safety threat exists as a result of the shooting.
Hedrick says this area of Rapid City has seen “way to much death.”
“We have staffed police officers in this area 24/7 and yet we still have violence occurring in this neighborhood,” Hedrick said Sunday morning.
He put out a call to action following the shooting and asked those in the neighborhood to work with police and end the violence.
