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Man shot victim in the leg following yearlong feud, Tooele police say
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TOOELE — A person was arrested Friday in Tooele after police say he shot a person with whom he had been feuding for a few 12 months.
Brandon Martinez, 24, was booked into Tooele County Jail for investigation of aggravated assault leading to severe bodily damage.
At 11:26 p.m., police responded to studies of a capturing at White’s Trailer Park, 1120 W. Utah Ave. When police arrived they positioned a 24-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his decrease leg.
The sufferer was transported to the hospital the place medical workers reported that the gunshot wound may outcome within the lack of his decrease leg, in response to a police reserving affidavit.
Witnesses mentioned Martinez entered the sufferer’s house uninvited and with out knocking “in an try to settle their variations,” the affidavit states. In some unspecified time in the future, Martinez left that house and went to a close-by trailer belonging to a standard good friend. The sufferer adopted and police say the 2 continued arguing whereas the third good friend separated them.
“There was an argument between the 2, at which level Mr. Martinez ended up pulling out a handgun and capturing on the sufferer one time within the leg,” mentioned Tooele Police Cpl. Colbey Bentley.
Martinez then left the scene and was later positioned by police at his father’s home, the affidavit says. Police additionally confiscated a 9mm handgun.
Following his arrest, Martinez mentioned “he felt threatened by the scale and the way upset the sufferer was. Mr. Martinez mentioned he aimed low, hit him within the leg and ran,” in response to the affidavit.