A 17-year-old Midvale boy already charged with homicide in a 2022 West Valley taking pictures loss of life is now charged with homicide in a separate stabbing loss of life in April in downtown Salt Lake Metropolis. Ravell Name, Deseret Information
A 17-year-old boy already charged as an grownup with taking pictures and killing a person in West Valley Metropolis is now accused of stabbing one other man to loss of life a couple of yr later downtown.
Julian Eli Lopez, of Midvale, was charged Monday in third District Court docket with homicide, a first-degree felony.
He's one in all three teenagers just lately charged with homicide within the June 4, 2022, shootings of two males throughout a birthday celebration at an condo close to 2935 S. Whistling Lane. Elijah Isaiah Brown, 23, was killed in that incident and Alexander John Ogilvie, 21, was critically injured.
The deadly stabbing occurred about 2:40 a.m. on April 30. "Individuals had been gathered exterior a nightclub after it closed having fun with music when a struggle broke out between totally different teams, ensuing within the sufferer being stabbed," in keeping with charging paperwork.
Oscar Vera, 28, was stabbed close to 32 E. Trade Place. He died from his accidents on Could 2. In line with witnesses, there was an after-party happening exterior of a membership when two teams acquired right into a struggle. Police mentioned they got numerous accounts about what occurred, together with misinformation.
On Could 19, Magaly Bravo, 19, was arrested after detectives situated surveillance video that confirmed her on the crime scene and decided her "preliminary assertion to regulation enforcement that she was not there when the struggle broke out was unfaithful," charging paperwork state. Gabriel Gonzalez, 20, was additionally injured through the struggle that night time. Police say Gonzalez "claimed that he was not concerned within the struggle and that he simply acquired too shut. Gonzalez said that he did not know the man who stabbed him or anybody else that was concerned within the struggle."
Investigators put the items of their case collectively, nonetheless, utilizing a photograph that reveals "Lopez reengaging with the sufferer and his group after the preliminary struggle had concluded and continuing to stab the sufferer, who will be seen clutching his chest after the stabbing," the costs allege.
The Metro Gang Unit took the 17-year-old into custody on Could 2 and Lopez was charged two days later as an grownup in reference to the 2022 taking pictures. He was 16 on the time of that killing.
Gonzalez, of West Valley Metropolis, and Bravo, of Murray, had been additionally charged Monday with obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony, in reference to the deadly stabbing.