SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — No arrests have been made in what officials are provisionally calling a homicide investigation in Sioux Falls.
Police gave an update on the investigation at a briefing Thursday.
According to Sgt. Cole German with SFPD, on Saturday Oct 10, around 8 p.m. police were dispatched to the 1000 block of E. 8th Street for reports of a cardiac arrest. German said initial information was a subject was “passed out and covered in blood.”
Officers discovered a man who was injured and had been shot twice and was unconscious. After life-saving measures were taken, the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The man who died was identified by police as Derrick Franklin, 48 of Sioux Falls.
“An extensive investigation has taken place up to this point,” German said. The coroner’s office has provisionally ruled the death as a homicide, given the man was shot twice, German said.
