SOUTH OGDEN, Utah — One of the people shot by a South Ogden man during an overnight standoff last week has died from his injuries, the Weber County Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.
The man, who has yet to be identified, was shot late Thursday, with his neighbor, James Joseph Rios, currently in custody following the incident. Rios had previously been charged with seven counts of Attempted Aggravated Murder, but a count of Aggravated Murder will now be added.
The attorney's office said the man died Tuesday.
During his first appearance in court on Wednesday, Rios began cursing as the charges against him were being read, forcing the judge to mute his microphone.
On Thursday, Rios barricaded himself inside his South Ogden home just before 10 p.m. and fired multiple shots at police during the hours-long standoff.
Before police arrived, Rios allegedly shot at his neighbor, striking him in the stomach. When the man's wife and sons went out to pull him inside, Rios fired again, striking the man in the head, while also hitting one of the sons in the foot.
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Both the man and his son were originally transported to the hospital with serious injuries. The condition of the son has not been made available.
Rios is also accused of shooting and killing the family's pet Dachshund
Residents in the South Ogden neighborhood said they only knew Rios as their next-door neighbor and not much more.
“We had a neighborly relationship," said Ethan Snow. "I didn’t know him super well personally, but we communicated through our backyards, and he has a snowblower, would snow-blow our driveway every once in a while. That kind of thing.”
On the night of the incident, some neighbors told us they received an alert telling them to shelter in place. However, several others said they were left in the dark.
"With everything going on, we had started searching social media just to see what was happening, everyone throwing in their two cents of what it might be. I think my wife did see something about sheltering in place, but I didn’t get any notification," said Brady Clevenger.
As residents learned about the death of a neighbor, they say they’re just trying to deal with the aftermath of this tragedy.
“It’s our next door neighbor, said Snow, "and then there’s a lot of questions to how we approach the future going there.”
Police said Rios told them that he "acted due to internal anger." Inside the home, officers found a long rifle and several casings. Rios also confessed to firing the rifle into the walls of his home "in an effort to keep officers back."
