SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah — A person of interest has been identified and taken into custody in connection with a homicide in South Salt Lake Saturday night.
Police were looking for 21-year-old Salman Ahmed on Sunday and announced within a few hours that he had been found.
Officers were called to the area of 2500 South 400 East around 11:45 p.m. for a victim with a gunshot wound. The 18-year-old male victim was taken to the hospital, where he died from his injuries.
The victim's name is not yet being released. South Salt Lake Police have not said what led to the shooting.
Ahmed was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail, but no charges have been listed yet.
In 2022, Ahmed was charged in connection with a deadly shooting outside a convenience store in Millcreek, which police said was gang-related. He pleaded guilty to lesser charges of discharging and possession of a firearm, for which he served about a year and eight months in jail before being released on probation.
“There were evidentiary concerns. We had worked out a disposition based on some evidence issues between the two shooting parties. There was a question based on their expert and ours regarding who shot first and who was defending themselves,” Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said in response to FOX 13's inquiry about the 2022 case. “There was some history between the two groups. We agreed to a disposition with a guilty plea that if he violated the law, then we could come back to conviction and sentencing.”
