SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota — Sioux Falls police have arrested a 45-year-old man in connection with the fatal shooting of Derrick Franklin, 48, who was found shot in the 1000 block of East 8th Street on the night of October 10, 2026. Travis Mondale Moore, 45, of Sioux Falls was arrested on a no-bond warrant and faces charges of second-degree murder and aggravated assault, the Sioux Falls Police Department said in information reported by KELO on Thursday, November 5. Moore was expected to be lodged at the Minnehaha County Jail. The charges are allegations; Moore has not been convicted and is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.
Police said the arrest followed an investigation that took, in the department's words, significant time and resources, with assistance from community partners. Officers obtained a no-bond arrest warrant in connection with Franklin's death before taking Moore into custody. The department said additional information will be provided at its next briefing, and that the investigation remains ongoing — meaning further details about what police believe happened on October 10, and whether anyone else is being sought, have not yet been released.
The night of October 10: a cardiac-arrest call that became a homicide case
The case began as a medical call. According to the police account reported by KELO, officers were dispatched at about 8:26 p.m. on Saturday, October 10, 2026, to the 1000 block of East 8th Street following a report of a cardiac arrest. The initial information was that a person was unconscious and covered in blood, and the reporting party told dispatchers there was blood on their vehicle and on the ground. When officers arrived, they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene and was later identified as Derrick Franklin, 48, of Sioux Falls.
In police reporting carried by KELO on October 16, officers said Franklin had been shot twice and was found unresponsive on Saturday night. At that stage police said they had suspects but had made no arrests. That gap — suspects identified within days, but no arrest for nearly four weeks — is consistent with what the department described this week as a lengthy investigation drawing on significant resources and help from community partners before a warrant was sought.
A second, separate shooting the same weekend
The Franklin shooting was one of two shooting incidents Sioux Falls police were investigating that weekend, according to the October reporting. In the second incident, just after midnight, a victim was shot in the arm and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Police found the suspects' vehicle a short time later and arrested an 18-year-old, identified in that reporting as Nevin Huapapi. Police reporting did not link the two incidents to each other, and Awaaz Punjab is not suggesting a connection: they are separate cases that happened to land on the same police weekend in the same city.
What the charges mean, and what happens next
Moore faces one allegation of second-degree murder and one of aggravated assault, according to the police information. A no-bond warrant means the warrant under which he was arrested did not set a bond amount for his release. His next steps are lodging at the Minnehaha County Jail and the first court proceedings that follow an arrest on murder charges in South Dakota, at which the charges will be formally put to him. Police have said more information is coming at their next briefing, and because the investigation is described as ongoing, the public account of the October 10 shooting may still change.
Released so far: the victim's identity, the time and block of the shooting, the suspect's name and age, the two charges, the no-bond warrant and the jail where he was expected to be lodged. Not yet released: any account of what led to the shooting, whether the two men knew each other, and whether further arrests are expected. Those answers are expected to begin with the police department's next briefing.
Why this matters in Sioux Falls
East 8th Street is one of central Sioux Falls' main east-west streets, and the 1000 block sits in a built-up part of the city — which is why a Saturday-night shooting there, first reported as a cardiac arrest, drew a major police response. Sioux Falls is South Dakota's largest city and the seat of Minnehaha County. For residents of the neighbourhood, the arrest closes nearly four weeks in which a homicide on their street had a named victim but no named suspect; the court case that now follows will be the public record of what police say happened.