Kearns man charged with taking pictures one other man throughout Salt Lake gunfire change

SALT LAKE CITY — A Kearns man is going through legal expenses after he allegedly exchanged gunfire with one other man in April in Salt Lake Metropolis.

Luis Alejandro Alfaro Munguia, 24, was charged Tuesday in third District Court docket with aggravated assault leading to severe damage and two counts of taking pictures a gun inflicting damage, second-degree felonies; plus obstruction of justice and possession of a gun by a restricted individual, third-degree felonies.

On April 6, Salt Lake police responded to the realm of 1050 W. 300 South on a report of a taking pictures. Investigators discovered a person who had a bullet gap in his entrance driver’s facet window and who had additionally been shot in his left arm and proper thigh, in accordance with charging paperwork.

Police say the person “was uncooperative with the investigation, and he was transported to the hospital for his accidents.”

Detectives with town’s gang unit served a search warrant on the residence the place the person was discovered and reported recovering 5 weapons. Whereas officers had been nonetheless on the scene, they had been notified that Alfaro had proven up at a neighborhood hospital with gunshot wounds to his stomach and forearm, the fees state. Initially, he claimed he was caught within the crossfire between two different events taking pictures at one another.

Detectives, nevertheless, later had been in a position to accumulate two shell casings and surveillance video from a faculty at 1115 S. 300 West. The video allegedly exhibits Alfaro getting out of 1 automobile and the opposite man exiting a second automobile. “A bodily battle happens. A muzzle flash seems to go off and Alfaro Munguia runs to (his automotive) then runs to the (the opposite man’s automotive) and extends his arm as if he had been holding a firearm to the (the automotive’s) driver’s facet window the place the bullet gap was later found,” in accordance with the fees.

As of Wednesday, no legal expenses had been filed in opposition to the opposite man allegedly concerned within the taking pictures.