SALT LAKE CITY — A man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and a woman is in the hospital with critical injuries after a Salt Lake City shooting Thursday night.
At around 11:45 p.m., a local hospital called police to request a welfare check after a woman came in with injuries that could not have occurred naturally.
"Based on what we know so far, it was some sort of head injury," explained Salt Lake City Police spokesperson Brent Weisberg. "And based on what the medical staff at the hospital are telling us the type of injury doesn't occur naturally."
In an update later Friday morning, police said the woman, who is 57-years-old, suffered a gunshot wound and she was upgraded to critical but stable condition.
Officers headed to a duplex in the area of 700 East Princeton Ave., which is where the woman lives, to secure the residence and investigate.
Based on investigation, police believed a person living in the second duplex may have had some information about the case, so officials worked through the night to attempt to contact that person, Weisberg explained.
Despite calls to the individual and attempts to contact him with a loudspeaker, teams could not communicate with the person.
Weisberg reported officers took the investigation slowly and methodically.
"This is a very complicated case so far based on the limited information that we have," Weisberg said. "So, you know, in a situation like this, we do want to take our time, we want to be very methodical with what we do."
A search warrant was executed, and SWAT Teams found the suspect dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside his half of the duplex. Both the victim and shooter are known to each other, and this was not a random incident, police reported.
Some streets in the area were shut down temporarily while the investigation ensued in the neighborhood.
"Based on the preliminary information that we have so far, it doesn't appear that there's any threat to our community members here in Salt Lake City," Weisberg explained, "But out of an abundance of caution we have shut down some certain streets just to make sure that we contain the area."
Weisberg emphasized that police are no longer looking for anybody in relation to the case.
