A South Dakota attorney general allegedly had the glasses on a man who hit and killed him in a car accident, according to published interviews Tuesday by the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.
The news of the interview comes after South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg (R) said he was unaware he hit the man until the next day.
The interview shows detectives from the Ravnsborg questioning case about the glasses they found in his car.
“They’re Joe’s glasses, so that means he ran his face through the windshield,” one detective said, according to the interview.
However, Ravnsborg seemed to stick with his earlier statement that he believed he had hit a deer that night and did not realize that he had attacked and allegedly killed Joe Boever, 55.
“I knew there was a dead man in that ditch,” Nick Nemec, Boever’s cousin told the Washington Post in response to the interview. “I knew what he was hitting and he lied.”
In September, Ravnsborg is accused of hitting Boever as he walked down the side of the road to the car that was in a ditch.
Ravnsborg allegedly searched with the sheriff that night to find a deer but found nothing. Ravnsborg returned to the scene the next day and that was when he allegedly found Boever’s body and reported him to authorities.
Following the publication of the interviews, two articles of dismissal were filed against Ravnsborg, who refused to leave the post when he was called to resign, according to the Post.
“Now that the investigation has been closed and the charges have been filed, I think the Attorney General should resign. As of today I have reviewed the material we publish and I encourage others to review it as well, ”the South Dakota governor said. Kristi Noem
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Now that the investigation has been closed and the charges have been filed, I think the Attorney General should resign. As of today I have reviewed the material we publish and I encourage others to review it as well.
– Governor Kristi Noem (@govkristinoem) February 23, 2021
“At no point has this problem hindered his ability to do office work,” said Mike Deaver, a private spokesman for Ravnsborg. said leader Argus.
Ravnsborg faces three criminal charges of operating a vehicle while using a mobile or electronic device, a lane driving violation and careless driving.