Jury acquits Rapid City man in fatal shooting
June 9, 2021
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RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) A Rapid City man is free after prosecutors dropped a murder charge against him and a jury acquitted him of gun crimes in connection with a fatal shooting in Pine Ridge last year.
Phillip Pond, 39, was accused of shooting Justin Little Hawk during an argument in November 2020. Little Hawk died that December in a hospital.
Pond turned himself in in February and was indicted on second-degree murder. The Rapid City Journal reported Tuesday that prosecutors filed a new indictment in May charging Pond with illegally possessing a gun but dropped the homicide count.
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