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 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.

By Associated PressRAPID 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 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.

South Dakota won't seek death penalty in Rapid City triple homicide