A Bicycle Ride Turned Deadly

A woman was shot by her friend

It was on an early morning bike ride

A gun was used to kill a Salt Lake City woman who was out on a bike ride in her neighborhood. Why she would go out for a bicycle ride at 3 am in the wee hours of the morning is not clear. Two women were apparently taking a bike ride when they got into an argument. Perhaps the argument started before the ride.

Police were called to a neighborhood on the west side of Salt Lake City, Utah. They responded at around 3:30 am to find a woman on the street with multiple gunshot wounds. She had been shot with a hand gun. A woman who turned out to be her girlfriend was trying to perform CPR on the woman after she had shot her friend. Paramedics also performed CPR, but the woman died.

Most people do not go around carrying guns with them when they are riding a bicycle. Perhaps they felt it might be dangerous to be outdoors at that time of the morning. Maybe one of them had a gun for protection. The woman who fired it should not have had a gun.

The woman who used the gun was arrested as a suspect in the shooting death. She was booked on charges of murder, obstruction of justice, and possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person. Both of women were 31 years old.

Police investigators said that the death appeared to be due to domestic violence. After officers arrived on the scene, the suspect said there was a medical emergency at her home. She left the scene, but police followed her to the residence. They detained her for the shooting.

Witnesses to the incident told police that the suspect and the victim got into an argument while riding bicycles. The suspect shot the victim and then apparently asked someone to hide the gun. Police were able to recover the weapon in a storm drain near where the shooting took place.

The suspect has had prior criminal convictions for assault by a prisoner, forgery, obstruction of justice, and drug charges. That explains why she was a restricted person with respect to having possession of a firearm.

It was another case of a senseless shooting by someone who should not have had a gun. The woman apparently killed her friend in a fit of rage after an argument.

[Source: TV News stories]