Jonathan E. Puttmann, 39, male, White/Caucasian, died on November 15, 2016, in Dell Rapids, South Dakota. He was a father and lifelong member of the community whose death began with an everyday family handoff that turned suddenly and irreversibly violent. That evening, a vehicle carrying his children stopped across from his home. When Puttmann arrived and approached to let the children out, words escalated to fists between him and a younger man waiting in the car. In the struggle that followed,
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