GUILTY UT - Stephen Chavez, 26, shot to death, Salt Lake City, 14 March 2012

SALT LAKE CITY — A father says he witnessed his son’s death after the young man was gunned down Wednesday night in a Poplar Grove smoke shop.

Police say 26-year-old Steven Guadalupe Chavez was killed inside CJ smoke shop on 900 West and 800 South at about 8:30 p.m. Chavez’s father and owner of the smoke shop, Isabel Chavez, says the suspect put the barrel of an assault rifle to his son’s chest and fired. He says the man fired several more rounds into Steven’s body as he lay on the ground.

According to Chavez’s father, it was all because his son asked the suspect to move his car. He says the suspect refused and initially became confrontational with him. When that happened, Chavez’s father says Steven tried to intervene and the scene escalated into what amounted to a fistfight — one the suspect allegedly ran away from, driving off in his red sedan.

“About 20 minutes later, he [suspect] arrived again, with somebody else driving a different vehicle, a dark blue vehicle, and at that point the shooting occurred,” said Salt Lake Police officer Josh Ashdown.

More at link:http://fox13now.com/2012/03/15/father-says-he-watched-gunman-execute-his-son/
ETA: The victim was my cousin's son.
Formally known as RKnowley

I'm so sorry about the loss in your family Earthbound.

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family Earthbound-I am sorry!

SALT LAKE CITY — Two men have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a man at a Salt Lake smoke shop.

The Salt Lake Police Department's SWAT team and Safe Streets Task Force made a felony stop of a vehicle just off the 7200 South exit of I-15 about 12:30 a.m. Monday.

Two men, Yelfris Sosa-Hurtado, 25, and Vladimir Suarez- Campos, 37, were arrested without incident.

Police believe Sosa-Hurtado gunned down Steven Guadalupe Chavez, 26, at CJ Smoke Shop, 876 W. 800 South, on March 14.

More: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=960&sid=196...n-shooting-death-at-smoke-shop&s_cid=queue-11

Sorry to hear that. Condolences to you and your family.

Earthbound, I am so sorry to hear about your loss. What a senseless crime.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/1775060-155/hurtado-sosa-case-defense-hardin-jury

The man accused of fatally shooting a Salt Lake City store clerk may testify on his own behalf Monday as the trial in the two-year-old murder case winds to a close.

Yelfris Sosa-Hurtado had been expected to take the stand in Salt Lake City’s 3rd District Court on Friday, but a detour in the proceedings during testimony from a homicide detective put the case on temporarily on hold, barring the defense from presenting its case.

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