Three People Killed, Including 8-Month-Old, in Shooting at Utah Festival

New York Times

7 hours ago

Three people, including an infant, were fatally shot Sunday night after a verbal altercation led to gunfire at an annual festival in West Valley City, Utah, according to the West Valley City police.
Around 9:20 p.m. local time, officers at the festival, held in a Salt Lake City suburb, saw two groups of people arguing, the police said.
'As they approached to break up the altercation, a 16-year-old male from one of the groups pulled out a gun and fired,' the police said on social media late Sunday.
An officer also fired a gun, the police said, but did not hit the gunman. The West Valley Police said they had taken a 16-year-old boy into custody.
The gunman hit five people. Two bystanders — a 41-year-old woman and an 8-month-old child — were killed, as was an 18-year-old man in one of the groups involved in the fight, police said.
Two other teenagers — 17 and 15 — were shot in the arm, the police said. They added it was unclear whether those teenagers were part of the groups involved in the fight.
The shooting happened on the final night of WestFest, which celebrates the establishment of West Valley City as well as its cultural diversity. West Valley City is Utah's second-largest city, after Salt Lake City, with a population of about 145,000 people.
The fatal shooting came a day after a bystander was killed at a 'No Kings' protest in Salt Lake City. Armed security workers saw a man handling a rifle near a crowd and fired at him, killing a bystander in the process. The man with the rifle was taken into custody and charged with murder.