Shooting, machete case suspect faces assault, other charges

A man suspected of threatening a Sioux Falls resident with a machete and fleeing from a rolled vehicle is in custody after an extensive search that closed streets.

Jeremy Jacob Goodshot, 28, from Sioux Falls, faces charges of aggravated assault, tampering with a motor vehicle and other traffic-related charges.

Sioux Falls Police found Goodshot in the back yard of a home in the 800 block of South Lowell Avenue around noon Thursday. He was detained without incident and taken to the hospital for injuries to his leg, public information officer Sam Clemens said.

Emergency communications indicated he had a bullet wound, but Clemens couldn’t confirm that.

Several officers, a SWAT unit, negotiators and a K-9 unit also were on scene on Lowell Avenue.

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The incident began at about 6:15 a.m. Thursday when a resident in the 900 block of North Minnesota Avenue was awakened by barking. When he looked outside he saw a man with a machete. The resident told police he fired into the ground, Clemens said, and police don’t know if Goodshot was hit.

Blood was found at the original scene but no victim.

“I slept right through it,” neighbor Jonathan Scott said. “I’ve been here 10 years, the closest thing to it is one morning I woke up to someone drunk trying to come in the back door. That’s nothing close to someone getting shot.”

Police believe Goodshot later ran from a rolled vehicle miles away, Clemens said. Officers responded around 7 a.m. to the accident near 18th Street and Wegner Avenue on the I-229 bridge after a caller said the driver left carrying a gun.

The vehicle hit the bridge and rolled, Sgt. Aaron Benson said.

Kandis Spoonemore, a cashier at the BP gas station at 18th Street and Cleveland Avenue, said she heard about the nearby rollover from a product representative who saw the crash.

The man told Spoonemore he saw the car hit the bridge and flip over.

“He said the driver got out and said, ‘Don’t call police,’” Spoonemore said.

Officers set a perimeter in the area around 13th Street and Conklin Avenue that remained until Goodshot was caught. The perimeter extended south to 26th Street and covered Mt. Pleasant Cemetery and Riverdale Park.

Police found Goodshot in the back yard of Marvin and Marie Weiber’s home.

Marvin Weiber did not know the suspect was in his back yard until he looked out the window and saw an ambulance in his driveway. He said he’d been expecting a service to spray chemicals on the lawn and had only looked out to see if they were there.

“We didn’t know anything about it,” he said of the morning’s incident. “They found him in a blanket way back there at the end of the lot.”

The couple said they’ve lived in the neighborhood for 45 years and had not seen anything like it before.

“I’m just glad to hear it’s over with,” Marvin said. “I’m glad they caught him.”

Police have not recovered any weapons and believe the gun is still in the neighborhood. If found, call police at 367-7000 and do not touch the gun, Clemens said.

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