SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug.13, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that injured a woman inside her residence in the Glendale neighborhood of Salt Lake City.
The bullet that hit the 55-year-old woman was fired from outside her house, the statement says.
A Salt Lake City Police statement says the investigation began at about 10:45 p.m. Saturday when dispatch was alerted to the gunfire near Concord Street and California Avenue.
“Officers arrived and learned two people approached a house and started shooting into it,” says a statement issued by the SLCPD. “At least one of the rounds fired traveled into the home, hitting the 55-year-old woman.
“Paramedics took the woman to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Detectives with the SLCPD Gang Unit took over the investigation and developed information about the case.”
Fourteen spent casings were collected from the area behind the residence, the statement says.
The bullet hit the woman in the arm, says an arrest document for Apisai Matelau, who turned himself in Monday at the Salt Lake County jail. He was positively identified as one of two males captured on a rear-entrance doorbell recording, his affidavit says.
“Post-Miranda, (Matelau) stated that he was not the shooter, however he agreed with the other suspect to hit a ‘lick’ for disposable THC cartridges. (He) elaborated on what a ‘lick’ was stating that it was a robbery,” the affidavit says.
Matelau “stated that he did not know what residence they were going to and did not know that the intent of the other suspect was to shoot into the residence.”
Matelau was arrested for investigation of aggravated assault with serious bodily injury, a second-degree felony. His bail was set at $2,500. He remained incarcerated as of Tuesday afternoon, a jail records check indicated.
As always, charges will be determined by the County District Attorney’s Office.
Gephardt Daily will have more information as the case develops.
