RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty for a New York man charged with killing three people in Rapid City. The Rapid City Journal reports Pennington County State’s Attorney Mark Vargo told a judge Tuesday (May 31, 2022) that he wasn’t aware the 45-day deadline for making a decision had passed four days earlier. Thirty-seven-year-old Arnson Absolu faces three counts of premeditated first-degree murder in connection with the August 2020 deaths of Charles Red Willow, Ashley Nagy and Dakota Zaiser. If he’s convicted he would now face life in prison.
