The Lake Area Tech student who died earlier this month from apparent acute alcohol intoxication had a blood alcohol level more than three-and-a-half times above the legal limit for driving in South Dakota.
That information is contained in arrest warrant affidavits obtained by KWAT News.
The court documents indicate 19 year-old Kiona Leigh York had a blood alcohol level of .296 percent. The legal limit for driving in South Dakota is .08 percent.
The affidavit says police were called to an apartment at 113 2nd Street Southwest in Watertown during the early morning hours of March 21st, where they found York unresponsive. Defendants Logan Schilling and Brady Johnke admitted consuming vodka brought to the apartment by Johnke.
York was pronounced dead at Prairie Lakes Hospital at 4:42 a.m., just over an hour after the initial police call.
The affidavit says surveillance video shows the alcohol consumed by York, Schilling and Johnke was purchased earlier in the evening by Kayla Juhnke, a mutual friend of all parties involved.
Johnke, Juhnke and Schilling are all charged with misdemeanors in connection with York’s death. York was a 2016 graduate of Stanley County High School in Fort Pierre, and was studying Marketing and Business Management at LATI.
(KWAT)