Two arrested in deadly SLC apartment shooting

SALT LAKE Town (ABC4) – Two folks have been arrested on Thursday in link to a deadly apartment capturing that remaining one particular individual lifeless and several others wounded in Salt Lake Metropolis.

Salt Lake Metropolis Law enforcement (SLCPD) have determined the suspects as Erik Virgen, 18, and Malibu Rose Mawson, 20. The victim has been identified as Anthony Wheatley, 19.

SLCPD has verified the motive is remaining investigated as an tried robbery. 

The lethal taking pictures took place at an condominium complex close to 1636 West Briar Rose Put a minor soon after 7 p.m. on Monday.

Though investigating, law enforcement learned there was a prepare hatched amongst the two suspects, the victim and another unidentified individual to “beat up and steal from a single or the two individuals living within the apartment” in which the lethal taking pictures transpired.

At some issue, police say a fight ensued involving many people within the condominium where several pictures were fired. The capturing still left Wheatley useless, two other men and women shot and an additional person staying strike by a gun.

Authorities say after the capturing, the two suspects traveled to Cedar Town. Police say “Mawson is accused of supporting to set up the initial theft with Wheatley” and “Virgen is accused of becoming inside of the apartment and pointing a firearm at a different person inside the condominium.”

Detectives are nevertheless investigating the case and deciding no matter if additional felony expenses will be pursued.

Law enforcement say each suspects have been arrested on costs of aggravated theft resulting in significant bodily injury and aggravated theft. Both suspects have been booked at the Salt Lake County Metro Jail.