A 15-year-old boy was by chance shot whereas he was sitting within the entrance passenger seat of a automobile by a 14-year-old boy who was within the again seat enjoying with a gun, in response to Sandy police. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information
A 15-year-old boy was by chance shot within the again by a 14-year-old boy whereas the 2 have been inside a automobile, Sandy police confirmed Monday.
The incident occurred practically a month in the past on July 10. Officers have been referred to as to Alta View Hospital after a 15-year-old boy was dropped off on the entrance door of the emergency room. The boy was quickly after flown by medical helicopter to Major Youngsters's Hospital to be handled for a gunshot wound to his again, stated Sandy Police Sgt. Greg Moffitt.
The boy has since been launched from the hospital.
The boy was sitting within the entrance passenger seat of a automobile that was driving within the Sandy-Midvale space with not less than two different individuals when he was shot by a 14-year-old boy who was "manipulating" a gun within the again seat, in response to police. The 2 teenagers have been dropped off on the hospital by the motive force who then took off.
Utilizing hospital surveillance video, detectives have been in a position to get a license plate quantity and located the car at an house complicated in Midvale.
"When officers seemed by way of the home windows of the car, they noticed blood and what seemed to be a bullet gap within the entrance passenger seat that handed by way of the seat from the again to the entrance," in response to a search warrant affidavit.
Moffitt stated the case remains to be beneath investigation as detectives attempt to decide the place the gun got here from and whether or not attainable gang affiliation performed a job.