A parolee has been charged with shooting his girlfriend to death, putting her body in a car and crashing that vehicle on Interstate 80 in South Salt Lake.
Terence Trent Vos, 31, has been charged in 3rd District Court with aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, possession of a firearm by a restricted person and three counts of felony discharge of a weapon, all first-degree felonies; obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony; and failing to stop at the command of a law officer, a class A misdemeanor.
Shortly before 3 a.m. on May 1, UHP officers responding to an accident on Interstate 80 found Shandon Nicole Scott, 32, had been shot several times. According to police, as they tried to save Smith, Vos was “running around the vehicle and would not calm down.” Smith died at the scene.
A witness told police that when he stopped, Vos was behind the wheel of the car “freaking out” and Scott was in the passenger seat. The witness said that he saw Vos throw something off the overpass. A nearby homeowner later found pieces of a handgun outside her house.
Vos tried to drive away in the witness’ car, but the witness stopped him. Vos then tried to flee on foot, but officers apprehended him. He told police a man had shot his girlfriend and he was trying to take her to a hospital.
Witnesses later told police they heard the sounds of fighting inside Smith’s apartment — a woman screaming, sounding “terrified” and “asking someone not to hurt her” and gunshots at about 2:45 a.m.
According to the charges, while Vos was in custody he made a phone call and said, “I don’t know how we started fighting. I don’t even know what it was over. … I just shot her.” Vos also admitted in the call that he had lied to police about another man shooting Scott.
The state medical examiner reported that Scott had been shot “approximately” 12 times but, because of “exit/re-entry patterns on her body, there were 43 bullet holes.”
Vos has previously been convicted of multiple firearm offenses and for attacking another prisoner in the Utah State prison and he was on parole at the time of the shooting. However, warrants had been issued for his arrest in February and April.
He is being held in the Utah State prison.
