Ballpark neighbors: Shooting, homicide highlight deeper crime problem in area
Neighbors say overnight homicide highlights ongoing problems
and last updated 2020-12-23 00:53:19-05
SALT LAKE CITY â Just after midnight Tuesday morning, a townhome surveillance camera picks up the distinct sound of gunshots.
At least nine shots fire off in the dark distance, somewhere beyond the quiet townhome yards off Kensington Avenue.
Police would respond and find a man shot to death inside a car on Kensington Avenue near Main Street. They d discover a second man and a woman shot, but still alive.
Nate Sase lives in one of the townhomes. He said his husband awoke to the noise, but Sase didn t hear the gunshots.
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Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY One person was killed and two others injured early Tuesday during an argument that ended in gunfire.
Salt Lake police were called just after midnight on multiple reports of shots fired. They arrived to find one person shot in the arm at the Main Street Motel, 1518 S. Main. That person was transported to a local hospital.
A short time later, a second person was found dead inside a car near Kensington Avenue and State Street, according to police. Later, a third person arrived at St. Mark’s Hospital to be treated for a gunshot wound. The injury was not life-threatening, police said.
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SALT LAKE CITY Salt Lake police on Saturday identified the man who died in a shooting early Tuesday and said another man has been arrested in relation to it.
Kasim Sheikh-Mumin, 41, is in custody on suspicion of homicide, felony discharge of a firearm, and possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person after the shooting death of Salesi Katoa. Two others were injured in the shooting; their names were not released.
According to an affidavit of probable cause, police responded to reports of a shooting just minutes after midnight Tuesday at 25 E. Kensington Ave., the Kings Lounge. They found Sheikh-Mumin, who said he d been in an altercation with a Polynesian male. He had visible injuries to his head, police wrote.
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One man is dead and another man and a woman were wounded in a late-night shooting in Salt Lake City.
Police were called to the Main Street Motel at 1518 S. Main St. early Tuesday just after midnight and found a man who had been shot twice in the arm. Officers located a second man who had been shot to death inside a nearby car on Kensington Avenue.