United States: prosecutor runs over pedestrian and claims to have hit a doe

The South Dakota attorney general announced that he had hit a doe while driving his car on Saturday, September 12, 2020 in the evening. It was actually a pedestrian whose body was not found until the next day, the US state’s public security department reported. Jason Ravnsborg, a 44-year-old Republican elected official who heads the judicial services of this rural state in the north of the country, says he did not realize he had hit a human being. The victim, Joseph Boever, was 55 and was not located until Sunday morning. Jason Ravnsborg was not injured.

The homicide was confirmed by Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem in a press conference on Sunday. “The Attorney General was involved in a collision,” said the elected. “There is a deceased person”. The state’s public safety department did not specify when or how Jason Ravnsborg reported to the sheriff’s services that he had hit a doe. The accident happened at 10:30 p.m. Saturday, after the prosecutor walked out of an election fundraising dinner. The investigation was entrusted to the local road brigade.

“A doe does not look like a human”

The relatives of the victim, however, expressed their fears that the case would be hushed up, including a possible hit-and-run. They complained that they were not called until around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday to identify the body. “A doe does not look like a human”, underlined Victor Nemec, a cousin of Joseph Boever, quoted by the Rapid City Journal. A spokesperson for the South Dakota Department of Public Safety did not say whether the attorney general had taken a blood alcohol test. Jason Ravnsborg received six speeding fines between 2014 and 2018, and he was guilty of several other traffic offenses, including one for not wearing a seat belt, according to the newspaper. Sioux Falls Argus Leader.