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Rapid City Woman Pleads Not Guilty In Boyfriend’s Death
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Rapid City woman has entered a not guilty plea in the stabbing death of her boyfriend.
The Rapid City Journal ( ) reports 43-year-old Corinne Vermillion pleaded not guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder and an alternative count of first-degree manslaughter. She’s accused of fatally stabbing 37-year-old Donny Ladeaux last month at a public housing complex in Pennington County, where the couple and their two children lived.
Preliminary autopsy results show Ladeaux died from a single stab wound to the chest.
Vermillion says she stabbed Ladeaux in self-defense during an argument.
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Information from: Rapid City Journal,