RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - A judge has set bond at $100,000 cash for a man charged with fatally shooting his girlfriend’s teenage son at a home near Rapid City.
Prosecutors say 43-year-old Jason Sharp is charged with second-degree murder in the Nov. 24 shooting of 19-year-old Ocean Sun Eberlein at a mobile home park where Sharp lives.
Magistrate Judge Marya Tellinghuisen set Sharp’s bond during an initial appearance on Monday.
A probable cause affidavit signed by an investigator with the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office says dispatchers received a call that night from a woman who could be heard screaming “you shot my son!”
A second caller told a dispatcher that she saw Eberlein and Sharp fighting in a driveway and heard a gunshot after they were out of her view.
Deputies arrived to find Eberlein unresponsive with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at a hospital, the Rapid City Journal reported.
The victim’s mother told deputies that that Eberlein and Sharp did not have a good relationship and had been squabbling with each other that day.
Sharp was taken to the Public Safety Building where he agreed to be interviewed and said he was regretful of his actions, according to the affidavit.
He said he remembered a physical fight and getting up from the ground before telling Eberlein the fight was over. Sharp said Eberlein was heading toward him so he retrieved his rifle and fired two rounds towards Eberlein.
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