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Sandy • A woman died Thursday afternoon, about nine hours after being shot outside her Sandy home by a man who lives there.

Police Sgt. Dean Carriger said 911 calls reporting gunfire came in at 7:10 a.m. Thursday. When officers arrived at the scene, the bloody driveway of a home in the 300 East block of Gary Avenue (9400 South), they initially thought — and reported — the 26-year-old victim, Candice Melo, was dead.

However, soon thereafter, Melo was discovered to have a weak pulse and was rushed to Intermountain Medical Center in neighboring Murray in "extremely critical" condition, with gunshot wounds in the head, hip and thigh. But she died at at 4:08 p.m., Carriger said.

Melo's friend, Michael Grimsley, had spent the night and also was allegedly shot at, according to investigators.

Grimsley told police that there had been an argument in the home and a resident, Larry Kent Graff, chased them from the house as he shot at them, striking Melo, according to a police news release.

Graff fired at least one round at Grimsley, who was not hit, according to a jail booking statement.

Carriger said Melo had moved into the home about a week ago.

Graff, 52, was taken into custody at the scene and was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail — before Melo died — on suspicion of two counts of attempted homicide, a second-degree felony. Now, police intend to change one of those counts to homicide, Carriger said.

"Graff told officers, when he was contacted at the scene, that he shot Ms. Melo," the police news release reads. "Graff told detectives in a subsequent interview that he intentionally fired his weapon at Ms. Melo and Mr. Grimsley as they ran from the home."

Graff also told detectives that he "didn't feel threatened" and "just wanted them to leave the house," according to the jail document.

Graff's prior criminal record consists of a handful of traffic tickets, according to a search of Utah court records.

Carriger had said that detectives were interviewing potential witnesses to the shooting, along with neighbors, to determine what led up to the violent confrontation.

A neighbor, Mike Anderson, said his son would have been walking right by the house at the time of the shooting, if the boy had not instead hit the snooze button on his alarm.

"It's kinda scary," said Anderson, who has lived in Sandy for 17 years. "Something like this doesn't really happen here."

Anderson was asleep at the time of the shooting, but he said his wife saw a man in handcuffs on the front steps of the house.

Another neighbor, 12-year-old Grace Frigm, heard three shots and then a scream.

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