A 3rd District judge sentenced a 17-year-old to at least 15 years in prison after a jury found he was guilty of murder. In 2021, the teenager fired a gun multiple times at a man driving a truck, ultimately killing the man.
A jury found a West Jordan teenager guilty of murder on Friday, ruling that the four shots he fired at a truck, killing the driver, were not in self-defense.
A boy who was 15 when police say he shot and killed a 23-year-old Kearns man in a truck in 2021 has been certified to stand trial on a charge of murder in 3rd District Court.
There were 95 homicides in Utah during 2021, the second highest total ever in the state behind 2020 s 103 killings, according to KSL.com statistics. Three out of every four victims were shot to death.