The state's top law enforcement officer said he initially thought he hit a deer while driving home from a Republican fundraiser on Saturday night.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg said in a statement late Monday that he discovered he had struck and killed a man walking along a rural stretch of highway only after returning to the scene the next day and discovering the body.
Authorities identified the dead man as Boever on Monday. He had crashed his truck in that area earlier, according to relatives, and was apparently walking near the road toward it. Ravnsborg said he was driving from a Republican fundraiser in Redfield to his home some 110 miles away when his vehicle hit something he believed to be a large animal. Ravnsborg said he called 911 and then looked around his vehicle in the dark, using a cell phone flashlight. He said that all he could see were pieces of his vehicle.
Ravnsborg said he was cooperating with the investigation, including providing a blood sample, agreeing to have both of his cell phones searched, and interviewing with law enforcement agents.
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