Police are looking for two people who may have “crucial information” about a 16-year-old boy who was fatally shot after school on a South Salt Lake sidewalk last week.
At the time of the shooting, a security camera captured footage of a minivan driver and a person walking a dog a block away from the shooting, which occurred at 4 p.m. on Feb. 13, near 3100 South on 300 East.
Officers are trying to contact the two people in hopes they might have information that could lead to a suspect in the shooting of 16-year-old Alan Hernandez-Lopez.
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“It might be a shot in the dark,” South Salt Lake police spokesman Gary Keller said of releasing the security camera footage.
A field, Granite Junior High School and some other buildings are on the block that would have separated the driver and the dog-walker from the shooting.
(Courtesy South Salt Lake police) A minivan driver and a dog-walker may have information that could help police piece together an afternoon shooting that happened in South Salt Lake on Feb. 13.
(Courtesy South Salt Lake police) A minivan driver and a dog-walker may have information that could help police piece together an afternoon shooting that happened in South Salt Lake on Feb. 13.
(Courtesy South Salt Lake police) A minivan driver and a dog-walker may have information that could help police piece together an afternoon shooting that happened in South Salt Lake on Feb. 13.
Hernandez-Lopez, a South Salt Lake resident, was shot in front of a house two doors down the street from his school. He had been attending a nontraditional Granite School District program since January.
He died at the hospital just after midnight on Feb. 14.
South Salt Lake police have asked anyone who has information about the shooting to call dispatch at 801-840-4057. Tipsters are allowed anonymity, according to South Salt Lake police.