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Subscribe to RSSThree people are dead near Salt Lake City after a shooting on Tuesday morning, police told local NBC affiliate KSL.
A fourth individual was taken to the hospital and considered to be in critical condition after the shooting. Police hunted for David Fresques, 25, after the shooting at a home in the city of Midvale.
The shootings were reported at 8:06 a.m., according to Salt Lake City's Deseret News.
Police have not released details on the circumstances surrounding the shooting. They told KSL that they are searching for Fresques’s white Nissan Maxima. The Deseret News reported that Fresques is being considered a "person of interest" in the shootings.
KSL reported that Fresques was sentenced to one to fifteen years in prison in 2007on robbery and simple assault charges, citing state court records. The man was also recently charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication.
“We don’t know if there are other suspects out there as well or who was involved,” Unified Police Lt. Justin Hoyal told KSL.
Schools in the area went into lockdown, and police officers were stationed at Midvale Elementary, Midvale Middle School, Copper View Elementary, and Midvalley Elementary while more than 70 officers went door-to-door seeking Fresques. The lockdowns were lifted by 10am local time, KSL reported.
Hoyal said the lockdowns were “precautionary.”
“I think it’s very important to note that the children are very safe right now,” Canyons School District spokeswoman Jennifer Toomer-Cook said.
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When prisons become actually a form of punishment instead of a business where people are getting rich at the expense of the taxpayer then perhaps people may be afraid of the outcome of their actions. There is no longer the American Dream, poeple have not faith in their government, their jobs, their families and their community. So, basically why try to be a moral and hardworking citizen? Out society has deteriorated hugely as a result of poor education, poor judicial system and an overly generous social welfare system
Maybe if a prison sentence would be more than just a trip through a revolving door there would be some good come from it. But when a perp with a 20-year sentence can get out in a couple of years after learning some more tricks of his trade, prison is of no benefit.
Prisons, where criminals go to get hardened up.
More guns. That's the answer.
Every news outlet is particpating in the attempt to change the Constitution. These murders now make the front page no matter where or when,,,it is almost laughable it is so obvious. Chicago is a FREAKIN war zone and no one ever wants to address that-it is always control the guns. The majority of the law abiding gun owners will never use one unless threatened. The whack jobs and thugs are the ones we need to address and until that is done, they will just keep making headlines. HOW LONG before a copycat emerges like the wahck job in LA???? Thanks media!!
Somehow I find that statement less than comforting. A majority...?
Chicago is awash with illegal guns, because gun control laws are not nation wide, and there are literally thousands of straw purchasers selling guns illegally for big profits. A woman was arrested just last week with a trunk full of handguns, on her way to Chicago to sell them. The ONLY reason she is able to do that, is lax laws in other parts of the country. They call the highway running south from Chicago, the Iron Highway, just for that reason.
National gun control laws will put a huge dent in the blackmarket, and disarm thousands of criminals. Controlling ammo sales, will disarm all badguys almost immediately.
It funny how we never see any articles out of California unless it's really big. They led the country in 2011 in firearm murders with 1220 so you have to figure there are a few everyday. Utah had a whopping 26.
Morejustice,
The problem with your theory is all the surrounding states have nowhere near the problem with guns as the CITY of Chicago does! Chicago is full of criminals and gang bangers. Thats your problem!
Maybe it's because the common theme among all of this violence is the guns, and the shockingly lax laws and regulations to even understand what to do about them, from a science/research perspective.
I may also suggest that instead of trying to circumvent and ignore the second amendment, then ratify it correctly. This will require a super majority.
I am more afraid and more likey of being killed on the road by someone illegally speeding, texting, or operating a vehicle with not enough experience, than I am of getting shot.
Maybe Ted Nugent can lead all of his Republican and NRA buddies in attendance at the SOTU tonight in a rendition of "Happiness Is a Warm Gun". Come on everybody sing.
The article provides little information. Apparently just an excuse to put the word "shooting" in a headline.
Who knows what it is really all about? Maybe he was defending himself against a bunch of people who were trying to kill him... Nah, couldn't be...
Here's what people don't understand: The attempted ban on assault rifles is just that; a ban on assault rifles. The ban doesn't have to make sense or do anything in particular other than ban assault rifles. The ban isn't designed to solve a problem, or alleviate part of a problem. It's what Congress does best: justify their existence.
I say ban all the guns, let's go back to knives and home made bombs..... DUH! Ban won't stop bad people from doing bad things, they'll find another way.... Geez, this cats outa the bag...How about we work on people to get people to stop using weapons to hurt one another! Didn't see anyone ban Knives, those have been used in murders every day!
My husband once had a literal coniption when our then 7 year old daughter and her friends ran out of paper and decided to stay up all night drawing on the walls and ceiling of her room. He banned her from having markers in the house..... Instead of teaching her to care about her room and use of markers. Same thing, our Daddy is banning our markers......
Maybe when your a generation raised with metal monkey bars and slides, and spankings...you learn that respect for yourself and others is mandatory, now days, no one has to care about anyone. Now... There is someone to regulate how you feel, and how others feel about you. Doesn't seem to be working...... We need to bring back the spankings, you didn't even curse an elder out loud let alone think shooting someone was an option...what's happened to our society?
From KSL:
MIDVALE — Police say there may be a second person of interest involved in a shooting that left three people dead and a woman in critical condition.
Unified Police Lt. Justin Hoyal confirmed that four people were shot in a house at 8286 Adams St. (450 West) in Midvale Tuesday. Police received a call about 8 a.m. either during or immediately after the shooting from within the residence.
"When they got here, they found three victims confirmed deceased at this residence. One was transported to the hospital, also having received wounds from a shooting as well," said Unified Police Lt. Justin Hoyal.
Details on the exact nature of the shooting have not been released.
Person of Interest
David Fresques
Hispanic male
25 years old
5 feet 8 inches tall
Medium build, 180 pounds
Seen driving a white Nissan Maxima Police urge the public not to approach him, as he could be dangerous. Anyone with information can call 801-743-7000.
Police named David Fresques, 25, as a person of interest and said they were also looking for a second man. Both were suspected of being at the house earlier today. Hoyal did not have a description of the second man, but based on interviews with witnesses and neighbors, detectives believe two men may have been present.
"He very well could be a suspect, could be just a witness," Hoyal said of Fresques.
Officers located a vehicle that matched that description at the Motel 6, 7263 S Catalpa Road, about 10 a.m. but had not confirmed it belongs to Fresques.
Police officers were knocking on each door and the motel and conducting sweeps through each room looking for the two men.
Roughly 70 officers and bloodhounds were going door to door looking for Fresques in the area Tuesday morning.
At least one neighbor said there was frequent short-term traffic at the house consistently.
(Tom Smart, Deseret News)
Hoyal did not know who owned the home or if the victims lived there.
Investigators were also working on obtaining a search warrant to thoroughly go through the house where the shootings occurred.
Police said the residence has a known history with narcotics. Hoyal said police served a narcotics-related warrant within "recent weeks."
According to Utah state court records, Fresques was sentenced to one to 15 years at the Utah State Prison in 2007 for robbery and simple assault. Most recently, he was charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication in September. At that time, the court listed his address as a Main Street residence in Midvale, not far from the shooting scene.
Fresques' criminal record also includes convictions for forgery in 2011 in which he was sentenced to one year in jail; forgery and a weapons violation in 2007; criminal trespassing on school property and possession of drug paraphernalia in another 2007 case in which he was sentenced to six months in jail; illegally carrying a concealed weapon in 2006; and disorderly conduct, also in 2006.
Several schools in Midvale were placed on self-imposed lockdown as a result of the shooting, including Midvale Elementary, Midvale Middle School, Copper View Elementary, Midvalley Elementary, Sandy Elementary, Jordan Valley Elementary, and East Sandy Elementary.
About 10:15 a.m., all lockdowns were lifted.
"We feel like right now the possibility of the suspects going to the school, the children are safe and we don't need the lockdown in place," the lieutenant said.
The lockdowns were for precaution and there was "no inherent threat to the schools," Hoyal said.
More information will be posted as it becomes available.
What a sloppily-written article... it didn't tell me squat.
The body keep piling up.
Lay a firearm on a table,next to it put a hammer, tire iron,etc. watch and see which commits the crime.It's not the tool,it's the fool behind it.There are crimes everyday with other tools then firearms,they should be reported along with the firearm crimes.If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.Reports are only as good as the people or person gathering the information,they make it say what ever they want.Don't believe everything you read.Definition of "Trust" is how far you can throw them. Report all crimes and the tool used.
What happened, did you run out of platitudes?
Guns are used to kill and injure more people in the U.S. than all other tools combined. That statistic alone is reason enough to do more to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally unstable.
Utah is a state with quite liberal gun laws. You can even own real "assault weapons" like machine guns. So why didn't that stop these murders, as per the NRA's assertions that more guns make us safer? Perhaps Utah's lawfully armed citizenry could do better with heavy artillery, RPGs and tanks.
Nobody has ever said more guns will make this go away. They have said however, that more armed law abiding citizens enjoy a much lower violent crime rate than those with strict gun laws and bans. Living in the suburbs and outlying areas helps too! No way in hell would you catch me in a city like Chicago or even Seattle. Those places are scum magnets!
Which is a very misleading statement, as well as statistically inaccurate. "Violent crime" is not the same thing as gun violence, and gun violence is the point. There is no statistical evidence to indicate that countries with more guns necessarily have lower violent crime rates.
More guns means more gun violence.
Yes I agree - his statement is the exact opposite of what the truth is. One only needs to look to Canada which is the Country most similar to the US but with strict gun laws - they have 1/6th the gun violence that we have.
This is part of the game that gun proponents use to rationalize promoting more guns - they swap statistics, and quote "violent crime" instead of "gun violence", and quietly pretend they're the same thing. They're not. Violent crime is a much broader category of activity, and one only needs to compare the mortality rates to see the difference.
It's like claiming that gun violence has been in 'steady' decline since 1990, which is not true either, although it is lower now than it was then. Gun violence peaked around 1990, having risen sharply in the previous decade, but by 2000 it had returned to the same level as it was around 1980, and has remained there ever since. But if you claim that gun violence is dramatically lower now than in 1990, that's as true as it is misleading.
NBC and CNN can promote every gun murder in America, the fact is 80% of ALL gun violence and murder is commited by Non White Minorities... Per FBI stats...
The Democrats will get no gun bans or restrictions through the Congress and in fact will cost them the Senate in 2014...
Gun nuts reason like five year olds. Here's help:
1. The fact that you cannot completely eliminate a problem does not mean that you cannot mitigate the problem, reduce the problem, reduce the problem considerably, improve the situation. And the fact that improvement will not occur immediately, with the flip of a switch or signing of a law, does not mean that it cannot be done over time. Understand?
2. Criminals get their guns from the same places that gun nut morons get their guns, except they sometimes steal them. The the easier it is to get guns, and the more guns there are available for the sometimes law abiding gun nut morons, the more guns there are easlily available for criminals. Understand?
3. The second amendment exists to provide troops with their own weapons and ammo for the army. And the second amendment is a conditional statement, following upon a fairly complicated first premise. Until you can understand that first premise, and describe how it's conditions are met, stop quoting the second amendment.
JimD
How about we mitigate the problem with putting repeat felons in jail for life?
We have a 3 Strikes Law here in California.
Murder is down 50%.
Robbery is down 50%.
Rape is down 30%.
Assault is down 50%.
Will your precious Gun Ban do that? It didn't do that from 1994 to 2004. What makes you think it will do it now?
I forgot to add. Look at the Supreme Court decisions for what the phrase "A well regulated militia" means in the 2nd Amendment. Look at the most recent decision about the Right of an INDIVIDUAL to own a gun.
If you ban guns and bullets, the rate from gun deaths, maimings, etc., will go down. It's just a matter of setting effective restrictions that work for everyone. They've already been stated above a number times. Growing up, I don't recall the total insanity of everyone wanting a gun so they could kill at any time. Hunting, yes.
It adds to a more civilized society, if that's possible; it doesn't help that the U.S. is the biggest weapons distributor in the world.
California is broke...How many more prisons do you want to build.
But not any gun, and not without regulation. D.C. v. Heller, I assume, is the decision you're referencing.
Dawgfan: UR dumber than Dawg Dew. Read the 2nd Amend. It is talking about a MILITIA. It doesa not mean that we should have guns all over the streets with no regulations. We regulate cars, don't we? The time is long past when we must regulate guns. WAAA! WAAA! They are trying to take my guns away.
Arrest the nra psychopaths for more murders.
The pc in your ward was suppose to be turned off by now...take your meds...you'll probably be ok...well depends on the definition of ok...
The Judicial System is again an accessory to murder...they can't afford for their bread and butter to stay in prison...new crimes...new legal fees...bigger prisons...higher pay...early retirement...that gal with the scales got mugged a long time ago...
Enough already. The US has become the Wild West. There is a gun shootout now, every. single. day. Enough.
There aren't any sheriffs left just union workers marking time...
Utah's firearm laws are some of the more permissive in the United States - 52 homicides - total including non-firearm related - in 2012. The entire year.
Chicago with its "model" gun laws. 42 gun related homicides in Chicago in January 2013. (forget all those in the rest of the state).
Can any of you nitwits who think an assault rifle ban will prevent shootings explain it to me?
If this murderer would have still been behind bars for the simple assault charges and the burglary that he committed,this would not have happened.We need harsher laws and stiffer penalties,no time off for good behavior.Our laws and the willy nilly sentencing for criminals is at the root of this violence along with lack of good mental health care and treatment.Everybody keeps debating the gun issue when that is not the root of the violence problem.
I was David's neighbor/classmate/friend for 5+ years and he wasn't anything like this in School. Makes me sad to think that something so awful like drugs educed all of this. I hope that they can catch him and he can come to terms with what he did. But this is definitely the person I was friends with for so many years. :/
I'm gonna put a sign in my yard showing who in neighborhood that don't own guns. It will make me feel safer.