24-year-old man jailed for alleged involvement in April 6 shooting

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 27, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — Police have arrested a man on several criminal charges after his alleged involvement in a shooting last month in Salt Lake City.

Luis Alfaro, 24, was jailed early Friday for investigation into:

• Two counts of criminal discharge of a firearm with bodily injury, a second-degree felony
• Aggravated assault, a third-degree felony
• Unlawful possession/purchase/transfer of a dangerous weapon, a third-degree felony.
• Obstruction of justice, a third degree crime

According to Alfaro's affidavit, police were dispatched to a shooting on April 6 and responded to the area of ​​1054 W. 300 South in Salt Lake City. They arrived to find a victim walking away with gunshots to his left arm and right leg. The victim said the shooter left in a black vehicle.

About a half hour later, the University of Utah Hospital reported that a man arrived with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was identified as Alfaro, who police said is a proven gang member.

“Luis stated that he was at a car rally in the west area of ​​Salt Lake City near a highway overpass when several people began shooting,” Alfaro's arrest documents state. “Luis is a documented member of the Playboy Sureno gang. Luis said (another documented gang member) was with him when the shooting occurred.

“Luis was observed by University of Utah security personnel heading toward the front doors of the hospital in a black sedan. Security observed Luis exit the vehicle and enter the hospital. They also observed a man get out of the passenger seat of the black sedans, get into the driver's seat and drive away.

Also on April 6, someone who knows the first victim told police that Alfaro, who was his friend and who drives a black Honda Prelude, shot him.

A friend of Alfaro's told police on April 6, after a traffic stop, that he and Alfaro were in the area of ​​500 S. Gladiola St. when “several people started shooting at each other.” (The friend) said he got into a car and Luis got into another car with his cousin. The friend assumed another associate drove Alfaro to the hospital.

On April 8, SLCPD officers received an anonymous tip that Alfaro was involved in a shooting that left two people injured. The informant provided the address where police found the two victims.

Police obtained a search warrant for Alfaro's Instagram account “and intercepted messages between Luis … and numerous other documented members of the Playboy Sureno gang,” the affidavit states. “In these messages, Luis states that he was shot with a gun after a physical altercation. Luis then states that he ran up to the driver's side window of the person who had shot him and shot that individual.

A police officer located the scene of the shooting, near Franklin Elementary School, and obtained surveillance video showing a physical altercation between two men, one wearing clothing similar to what Alfaro was wearing when he arrived at the hospital on April 6. black sedan, and one of them extended his arm as if firing a gun, the affidavit states. Two vehicles fled at high speed.

Alfaro was arrested Friday and remained in custody Monday. The identity of the shooting victim first interviewed by police was not immediately available, so it is unclear if he faces charges.