KOTA reported Judge Heidi Linngren sentenced Torell Flute to 15 years for shooting a man in the head.

Fifteen years and two years running together are the term KOTA and KBHB Radio reported. They are not the 25 years KOTA said in January that an attempted-murder count carried, and they are not the four years that January story said the firearm charges carried. Thirty-seven, 26, and 28 are the three ages KOTA has printed for Torell Flute. The man who survived is 36 in the sentencing accounts, and he is not named.

KOTA, by Tamara Chibe, published Oct. 31, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. CDT, reported that a 28-year-old Rapid City man will spend 15 years in prison for shooting another man in the head at a home on East Anamosa Street. The station said the Pennington County State's Attorney's Office says Torell Flute was sentenced Friday in connection with the Jan. 4 shooting, that the 36-year-old victim survived, and that he was able to identify Flute as the shooter. Friday, in a story dated Saturday, Oct. 31, is Oct. 30. KBHB Radio, bylined News Staff and dated October 30, 2026, reported a Rapid City man was sentenced that day to 15 years for shooting another man in the head, that the 36-year-old victim survived, and that Torell Flute, 28, was arrested shortly after the January 4 shooting at a residence on East Anamosa Street. It reported the victim identified Flute as the shooter immediately following the incident. KOTA's sentencing story did not print immediately, and it did not print when he was arrested. A home and a residence are not the same word. Both accounts leave the man who was shot unnamed.

The reduction and the judge's title are not one sentence. KOTA reported Flute was initially charged with attempted murder and that prosecutors agreed to reduce the charge to aggravated assault as part of a plea agreement after reviewing the evidence. It reported that during the sentencing hearing Deputy State's Attorney Emily Toms described the victim's survival as a medical miracle. It reported Seventh Judicial Circuit Judge Heidi Linngren sentenced him to 15 years for aggravated assault and two years for a firearm conviction, that the sentences will run at the same time, and that the total is 15 years. It reported the firearm conviction stems from possessing a gun despite a prior drug conviction, and that Deputy State's Attorney Gina Nelson prosecuted the case. KBHB reported the state agreed to the reduced charge of aggravated assault after considering the available evidence and the importance of securing a conviction. Reviewing the evidence, and reviewing the evidence plus the importance of securing a conviction, are not the same reason. KBHB reported Toms urged the court to follow the plea agreement while describing the survival as a medical miracle. KOTA did not print that she urged the court to follow the agreement. KBHB called Linngren the Seventh Judicial Circuit presiding judge and reported she accepted the plea agreement. KOTA did not print presiding and did not print that she accepted the agreement. KBHB used concurrently. KOTA used at the same time. KBHB reported aggravated assault is a Class 3 felony punishable by up to 15 years and/or a $30,000 fine, and that possession of a firearm by a person with a prior drug conviction is a Class 6 felony punishable by up to two years and/or a $4,000 fine. Those maximums are not the sentence. Neither sentencing story printed a fine the judge imposed.

KOTA's own earlier pages do not print 28. On Jan. 5, 2026, at 9:33 a.m. CST, a story by Tamara Chibe and Hannah Hutter said 37-year-old Torell Flute was charged Monday afternoon with attempted murder after a shooting at the LaCrosse Estates apartment complex, according to the Rapid City Police Department. The same story's original arrest list printed Torell Flute, 37, for a parole hold, obstruction, possession of a firearm by a felon, and possession of a firearm with an altered serial number. It also printed Micheal High Elk, 37, and Francisco Bordier, 30, and said two other men were arrested on unrelated charges. A published line of 9:33 a.m. and an update that says Monday afternoon are not the same part of the day. On Jan. 8, 2026, at 1:54 a.m. CST, Ryan Hill reported 26-year-old Torell Flute was charged with first-degree attempted murder, possession of a firearm with an altered serial number, possession of a firearm with a prior drug conviction, and obstructing a police officer, from a shooting at LaCrosse Estates on January 4. Thirty-seven, 26, and 28 are not the same age. A felon, in the Jan. 5 list, and a prior drug conviction, in the Jan. 8 charges and in the October firearm sentence, are not the same status. The Jan. 8 story said he faced up to 25 years if convicted on the attempted-murder charge and four years on the firearm charges, that bail was $250,000, that the state called him an extreme danger to the community, and that a preliminary hearing was scheduled for January 22. The sentencing stories did not print 25 years, four years, $250,000, that phrase, or January 22. Four years, which January said the firearm charges carried, and two years, which October imposed on the firearm count, are not the same number. The altered-serial count is in the January stories. It is not in the term KOTA and KBHB described Friday.

Where it happened, and what the injury was, are not one January sentence. The Jan. 5 story reported police were dispatched just after 9:20 p.m. Sunday, that the victim was taken to a hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries, and that the original report placed the response in the 700 block of East Anamosa Street. It quoted Rapid City Police Captain Andy Becker on the officers' response. The Jan. 8 story named LaCrosse Estates and did not print the 700 block or 9:20 p.m. The October stories say a home or a residence on East Anamosa Street and say he was shot in the head. They do not print LaCrosse Estates, the 700 block, 9:20 p.m., or non-life-threatening. Serious and non-life-threatening, in January, and a shot to the head that a prosecutor called a medical miracle, in October, are not the same description. The Jan. 8 image caption called the count an alleged murder charge. The Jan. 8 story named first-degree attempted murder. Murder and attempted murder are not the same charge. The October accounts say the attempted-murder charge was reduced and that the sentence is 15 years for aggravated assault and two years on the firearm count, running together. That term is what those two outlets reported the judge imposed. The man who was shot is not named in any of them.