WEST BOUNTIFUL, Utah — A man is dead after a suspected shooting in a West Bountiful parking lot, and police arrested the suspect near Moab.
Officials were searching for 31-year-old Jake Thomas Jackson in connection to the case. Just before 10 a.m. on Friday, Moab police told FOX 13 News Jackson drove through town, initiating a police chase through the area.
Eventually, Grand County deputies spiked the car Jackson was in as he entered San Juan County, Moab Police officials reported. After his vehicle became disabled, he allegedly barricaded himself inside.
Jackson was eventually arrested after the standoff. He was booked into the Davis County Jail facing charges of murder, aggravated assault, and unlawful installation of a tracking device.
The search for Jackson was triggered after police located the body of a man in the Lowe's parking lot at 545 West and 350 North in West Bountiful early Friday morning.
Businesses in the area were closed temporarily as the investigation was conducted.
Jackson's arrest report states that he shot and killed the victim, Zachary Todd Carson, after seeing him with his estranged wife.
Jackson's estranged wife told police that they had been separated for about a year. Carson had been helping her with divorce paperwork.
According to court documents, Carson and the woman met at the Lowe's parking lot Thursday evening and left in Carson's vehicle. When they returned, the woman was about to get in her car when Jackson showed up and confronted them.
They got into an argument about her being with Carson, and Jackson pulled out a gun. The woman tried to get in between the two men, but Jackson allegedly pushed her against her car. Carson then told him to not treat her that way, at which point Jackson shot him multiple times. She told police that Jackson then pointed the gun at her and told her to take him to his son, but she managed to drive away as he pounded on the passenger door.
It was later determined, based on surveillance footage, that Jackson arrived at the parking lot around 2 a.m. and parked his truck some distance away from the woman's car, but from a spot where he could see it.
The woman told police she believed Jackson had put a tracking device on her car. A search of her vehicle later confirmed that there was a tracking device.
Jackson is being held without bail.
