Officials knew of medical condition that contributed to man's death at detox

Andrew Watts came to Rapid City's detox center needing help with an infected leg and a night's respite from the streets, but he ended up dead on a floor mat less than 24 hours later.

He was killed by complications from his leg infection, even though he was medically examined twice in the hours before he died.

Those details of the 46-year-old Watts’ death are being made public for the first time as the result of a Journal investigation. Since Watts died Jan. 14, neither the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office, which oversees the detox center, nor the Rapid City Police Department, which conducted the official investigation, has publicly released any detailed information about the death.

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