Mark Walker

mwalker@argusleader.com

The parents of a teenager charged with murder after a fatal car crash Wednesday tried to cover up the crime, police said Friday.

Police say Vicki Lingor, 54, and Joseph Michael Lingor, 50, tampered with evidence and provided police with false information after their son allegedly was involved in the fatal crash near central Sioux Falls. They are both charged with accessory, misprision of a felony and false reporting to law enforcement, Lt. Mike Colwill said. The two were not in the vehicle at the time of the crash. Both turned themselves into authorities Friday.

Alexander Lingor, 16, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter charges after the truck he was driving forced a sedan off the road, causing a passenger fatal injuries, Colwill said. Lingor is also being charged with aggravated assault and felony hit-and-run.

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Kareem Cisse, 15, a passenger in the sedan that was forced off the road, was pronounced dead at the scene, police say.

Additionally, police charged Nyounkpao Kyne, 18, with vehicular homicide, vehicular battery, manslaughter second degree and driving under the influence. Police say Kyne was the driver of the sedan. Kyne was arrested Friday afternoon, police said.

Investigators described the case as a drug transaction gone wrong.

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Affidavits filed in the case provide new details of the incident:

Cisse had been texting Alexander Lingor to buy marijuana from him. Two groups of people, including Lingor driving the truck and Cisse in the sedan, met at a bank on S. Louise Avenue, according to the paperwork.

Lingor leaned into the back side of the sedan to hand over the marijuana, and a person in the sedan reached over and grabbed it. The sedan then sped off.

Lingor then got into the truck along with two other passengers and chased the sedan, which included Cisse and two others.

Speeds of the chase reached 80 mph over the course of more than three miles. Lingor drove the truck into the back of the sedan at one point, and the sedan hit a tree at Western Avenue between 22nd and 26th Streets. Cisse was pronounced dead at the scene. Lingor and two passengers fled in the truck and drove the vehicle until it became disabled due to a flat tire, according to court paperwork.

Police identified the truck later using surveillance footage from the Midco Aquatic Center. They then went to the Lingor residence.

Vicki and Joseph Lingor admitted to giving police false information about the incident. According to court documents, Alex told his dad that he had been involved in the fatal crash. He showed him a story on a news website about the incident and told him he had been involved with the truck.

Joseph Lingor then called Vicki Lingor and told her to come home. Once home, Alex told his parents he had been selling marijuana and had met up with a customer and that it had resulted in a drug rip. He then admitted to them that he was the driver in the crash that resulted in the death of Cisse.

But according to the paperwork, Joseph and Vicki then lied to police about the incident. Vicki Lingor told police that she provided transportation from her residence back to the scene where the pickup was parked. She then dropped Christian Walberg — a passenger who was in the truck during the chase — at his residence on the way. Afterward, Vicki said she and Joseph went to the pickup with the intention of making repairs to the vehicle so it could be moved.

Vicki told police that she had known of the details of the incident before police ever contacted her but decided to lie.

"She reported that she wanted to protect the kids and didn't want them to get into trouble," court documents say.

Joseph Lingor also admitted to lying to police about the details surrounding the incident. He told police that "I told you only what I wanted you to know."

Joseph and Vicki Lingor originally told police that the truck had a flat tire while Alexander was driving it, causing the vehicle to hit a light pole. But Joseph Lingor later told police that Alexander did not hit a light pole and said that he hadn't gotten a chance to ask him what happened.

Cisse's 16-year-old brother, Kaden, was also in the vehicle and remains hospitalized. The driver of the sedan, Kyne, was treated and released.

Alexander Lingor appeared in court Thursday and is being held on $1 million bond. Though he's being charged as an adult, Lingor can't be sentenced to mandatory life in prison without parole because he is a juvenile.

Anthony Moran, 26, a passenger in the pickup, was charged with accessory and misprision of a felony. Both were arrested in southwestern Sioux Falls after fleeing the crash.

Police also announced Friday that Walberg, 18, will be charged with distribution of marijuana to a minor less than one ounce, hit and run and misprision of a felony.