MOORHEAD, Minn. (KFGO KVRR) – A Moorhead man is in the Clay County jail in connection with a 2019 homicide in Watertown, S.D.
Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting says 18 year-old Gage Stevenson is being held on a First Degree Murder charge.
Stevenson was taken into custody Tuesday by Moorhead Police. Capt. Deric Swenson says police arrested Stevenson at a residence after they were notified that an arrest warrant had been issued in South Dakota.
In 2019, Watertown Police reported that a 16-year-old Moorhead boy was suspected of causing the death of 43-year-old Dawn Meyer in a suicide attempt. Police said the boy was driving a car when he slammed into an SUV on U.S. Highway 212 as Meyer was on her way to work.
Police said the boy was a runaway and was going at least 100 mph in a 35 mph zone. He was hospitalized with serious injuries, but was not immediately charged.
Empting says Stevenson will be held in Moorhead until he’s extradited to South Dakota.
