KEARNS, Utah, Dec. 20, 2019 (Gephardt Daily) — A 19-year-old man from West Jordan has been charged with homicide and robbery in the case of a fatal shooting in Kearns in 2017.
Carson Michael O’Dell, who is already an inmate in Salt Lake County, is being charged in the death of Joshua Belen, age 20.
“The Metro Gang Unit has been tirelessly working with the Unified Police Violent Crimes United on the Kearns Recreation Center homicide case from October 2017,” the statement says.
“Throughout the investigation, it was found Carson O’Dell was present when Belen was killed. Carson admitted to detectives he was involved in this case. Carson and several others had planned on robbing the victim. The robbery went poorly, and Carson shot the victim.
“Carson was already an inmate at the SLCO Jail. Carson was taken back to the jail and booked on homicide and robbery charges were added. This case remains an active investigation.”
so he was the one who shot my brother, such a loving and kind hearted person josh was, why would you do something like that? i remember josh would always be the first one up, i would wake up walk out of my room and you heard his music playing he made me breakfast and made sure i was at school and safe. the day everything happened was such a fun day! we were all laughing, singing, dancing. i remember when josh left the house i was the last person to see him. he came inside to grave his jacket told me he loved me and as usual i told him to be safe and i didn’t even think about hugging him. he told me he would be back in about 5-10 minutes. my other brother Cameron went to my moms room telling her josh was shot, they kept repeatably calling him there was no answer, Cameron never shows emotions and he was passing in my moms room walking back and fourth with his hands on his head then his face and worked his way down to his hips and did that process over and over again i didn’t know what was going on, i texted josh to see what happened little of what i knew, cameron came out 5 minutes after i texted josh, i asked him what happened and he stood there for a minute and just looked at me and had such a heartbroken look in his eyes and told me “josh just got shot” my heart sunk and it took me a second to process it threw my head and i then started crying, cameron came next to me and hugged me he couldn’t say anything he was in such disbelief. everything was hard after that, my grades went down i didn’t want to go to school and didn’t even want to do halloween (me and josh had a costume together that year) i was just so hurt and angry at the world just hope just hoping they could find who did it. a week went by, a month went by and the a two years pass by and he is finally getting his revenge! fly high josh you are always remember and loved in each and everyone of our hearts! i love you!??