IRON COUNTY, Utah — A woman was taken into custody Sunday night in a remote area of Iron County after a man was found dead with a gunshot wound.
Jessica Lynn Sabo, 42, was taken into custody in relation to the incident.
The identity of the man who was killed was not made immediately available as officials work to notify the next of kin of the death.
Officials with the Iron County Attorney's Office reported that at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday night, the Sheriff's office was notified that a man was dead and Sabo was still in the area.
Deputies responded to a "remote location" in Beryl, to search for Sabo and investigate the situation.
"A short time later," officials report, Sabo was located and taken into custody.
Once the scene was secured, deputies located a deceased male with a gunshot wound.
A probable cause affidavit states that a man went to the victim's travel trailer to speak with him, but found the man dead in the trailer's doorway. The witness then started driving to get help, but he saw Sabo walking along the road with no shirt and carrying a shotgun. He told police that when she saw him, she started walking toward him, so he turned around and drove the other way, then called the police.
The man who found the deceased victim said he gave Sabo the gun she was carrying about three months ago for her own protection.
Investigators found three shotgun shells on a cot near the victim's trailer, and the victim had multiple shotgun wounds.
Police said Sabo would not answer their questions about the incident. It was not specified what, if any, relationship the suspect and victim had.
She is being held without bail.
