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Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Yahoo
The Compass Center's annual event honors Emily Eirinberg
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – A local organization that helps those affected by sexually assault and domestic abuse is dedicating its annual arts event to one local woman. This year's Rise Up: Arts as Resistance event, hosted by The Compass Center will honor Emily Eirinberg. 'Our event features and highlights the ten warning signs of unhealthy relationship. And the last two models in the show will represent hope, healing and really the ability to rise up out of the darkness,' The Compass Center's chief development and communications officer, Sydney Bartunek said. This is the first year the non-profit is paying tribute to someone affected by domestic violence. In February police arrested 23-year-old Emily Eirinberg's ex boyfriend in connection to her death. Her mother Patty Eirinberg says it's events like these that help keep her memory alive.'It's a way to help us heal. It's like that rope to hang on to and it's helping us through a lot. I mean this was a senseless, tragic death that shouldn't have happened,' Eirinberg night will feature dancers, art and music. Something Emily's mother said she would enjoy. 'She had been in dance from the time she was probably 3-years-old to high school, and it was always her kind of her soul,' Eirinberg her mother hopes this event will shed light on local resources and encourage others to speak up about domestic abuse. 'Emily's death was like a stone thrown in the water. And it has affected so many people. And we don't have her anymore. But if that ripple can help make a difference for our communities outside of wherever, that's what I can take ahead for Emily,' Eirinberg said. Money raised from the event will go toward resources at The Compass Center. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Yahoo
Murder suspect accused of stalking & stabbing ex girlfriend
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Sioux Falls woman is dead after police say her ex-boyfriend planned to kill her. So they say he went to her job, waited inside her car, and attacked her. 24-year-old Tyson Christians is accused of stabbing Emily Eirninberg to death and then leaving her body in a car outside the Empire Mall. Tyson Christians is charged with first degree murder in the stabbing death. Rapid City man arrested for making threats against Gov. Rhoden Court Documents say Christians used a code to get into her car, Monday morning, while she was at work and waited for her. He convinced her to drive to a nearby parking lot and get in the backseat with him. Then he pulled out a pocket knife and stabbed her repeatedly until she then called a friend and asked to meet at the Empire Mall and told the friend that Eirinberg's body was in the vehicle. 'Officers were dispatched after Metro Communications received a call from an individual who said there was a man that he was there with that had killed his girlfriend,' said Lt. Nyberg. Police found Eirinberg's body in the back of a Ford Escape in the parking lot near Dick's Sporting Goods. Officers took Christians into custody and he is now in the Minnehaha County Jail. Police are familiar with Christians, a check of court records shows he has an extensive criminal history. Past charges include assault, robbery, hit and run and DWI and started when he was still a teenager. He also has a history of avoiding his court dates. The victim's family tells us that Eirinberg and Christians were no longer dating at the time of her death. Minnehaha County States Attorney Daniel Haggar tells KELOLAND News that Christians will make his initial court appearance tomorrow. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
