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Justin Rackley Sentenced to Life for 2024 Party Shooting
10/11/2025
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- On October 11, 2025, Justin Cody Rackley was sentenced to three life sentences without parole plus 30 years for the 2024 house-party shooting that killed three people.
- A jury found Rackley guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault.
- The June 2024 shooting at a Sioux Falls house party killed Kemnitz, Reaves, and Thompson, and two others were injured.
- Rackley pleaded not guilty.
