Victim’s name released in Lead fatal crash

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – The South Dakota Department of Public Safety has released the name of the man involved in last Saturday’s crash outside of Lead.

According to a release by the SDDPS, John Michael Walz, 42, of Lennox was traveling north on US 385 near mile marker 121 and failed to negotiate a curve in the road.

Walz was life-flighted to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries which he deid from He died from on Wednesday…

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