Second arrest made with possible connection to a Glendale neighborhood shooting
Sep 1, 2024, 10:11 AM
Salt Lake City Police cars sitting in a parking lot. (Salt Lake City Police Department)
(Salt Lake City Police Department)
SALT LAKE CITY — Police arrested a man on Friday who police believe was involved in a Glendale neighborhood shooting, which resulted in a 55-year-old woman being injured.
Salt Lake City Police Department said in a press release that its officers responded to a shooting near Concord Street and California Avenue on Aug. 10. Police found a woman with gunshot wounds at the scene. Additionally, SLCPD said the wounds were caused by two people who came up to the house the woman was in and began shooting at the home.
“At least one of the rounds fired traveled into the home, hitting the 55-year-old woman,” The press release said. “Paramedics took the woman to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.”
A suspect was later arrested after the SLCPD Gang Unit investigated the case. Police said the suspect was 21-year-old Sam Keith Maez Ripley, who was booked “into the Salt Lake County Metro Jail on one count of aggravated assault resulting in serious bodily injury, being in unlawful possession of a dangerous weapon as a restricted person, and 14 counts of felony discharge of a firearm resulting in serious bodily injury.”
This is the second arrest police have made in connection to this shooting.
