SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 1, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — Detectives with the Salt Lake City Police Department’s Gang Unit have arrested a 21-year-old male suspect in connection with the Saturday, Aug. 10 shooting of a 55-year-old woman in Glendale.
This shooting was first reported about 10:45 p.m. that night when emergency operators received calls of a shooting near Concord Street and California Avenue.
“Officers arrived and learned two people approached a house and started shooting into it. At least one of the rounds fired traveled into the home, hitting the 55-year-old woman,” according an SLCPD press release.
“Paramedics took the woman to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.”
On Friday, Aug. 30, detectives with the SLCPD Gang Unit arrested Sam Keith Maez Ripley.
“Detectives booked Ripley into the Salt Lake County Metro Jail on one count of aggravated assault resulting in serious bodily injury, being in unlawful possession of a dangerous weapon as a restricted person, and 14 counts of felony discharge of a firearm resulting in serious bodily injury,” the release said.
This is the second arrest in this case.
On Monday, Aug. 12, detectives arrested Apisai Matelau, 19. He was booked into the Salt Lake County Metro Jail on one count of aggravated assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
