Police say northwest Sioux Falls shooting resulted in city’s 7th homicide of 2024
Officials with the Sioux Falls Police Department have confirmed that a Wednesday night shooting resulted in what is now being investigated as the city’s seventh homicide of 2024.
Police spokesman Sam Clemens said officers were called to a trailer home in the 6000 block of West Tanager Place for reports of gunshots.
When they arrived, the release said, they found a home that had been struck by multiple gunshots — the same house, Clemens said, that was shot about 16 times in a Saturday incident.
A 44-year-old man who answered the door when officers checked on occupants was uninjured, Clemens said, but a woman in a back bedroom, identified as 27-year-old Tanisha Bruguier, had been shot in the torso. Lifesaving measures were unsuccessful, and Bruguier was reported dead at the scene.
There have been no arrests connected to the case, Clemens said. He said it seemed obvious that the home had been targeted, but police were unsure why, and urged anyone with camera footage or other information to reach out to police.
The shooting was originally reported in a Thursday afternoon press release from police that said the woman had died, but did not specify whether she had been shot.
Clemens said the delay between the shooting and the determination that it was homicide was due to the need to perform an autopsy, saying that authorities had wanted to rule out the possibility that Bruguier’s cause of death had been a drug overdose.
