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Team Coverage Police caught a man wanted for kidnapping and a robbery because he showed up in their parking lot shooting a gun. Brigham City police and the Box Elder County Sheriff's Office got the call early this morning.
At one point, the man pointed his gun at a Brigham City police officer, so a deputy shot him. At the time police didn't know this, but it turns out that man with the gun was wanted for a violent robbery this past weekend.
To understand how safe Melissa feels today, you have to go back to how she felt Saturday. "It's the most, most scariest thing that's ever happened in my entire life," she said.
She was working at the Money Bags check cashing store in Brigham City when Matthew Jaramillo, who took out a loan there two weeks ago, all of the sudden wanted more.
"He jumped over the counter and had one hand behind my head and one with a knife against my throat," Melissa explained.
He left with $5,000. Melissa, who doesn't want her last name known, was left tied up in a back room. "I'm still nervous and lock myself in my house and car when I go anywhere," she said.
Then early this morning, he showed up on camera shooting a gun behind the Brigham City Police Department. Officers told him to put the gun down. "They saw the individual in the parking lot carrying a, what we now know to be a AK-47," explained Brigham City Police Lt. Michael Nelson. Police say he had already fired eight shots from the gun.
He continued yelling at officers and, at one point, actually aimed his gun at an officer. That's when the sheriff's deputy shot the man three times in the chest, leg and buttocks.
Jaramillo, is now listed in serious condition at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden.
The Money Bags owner says she's relieved he's off the streets now, after getting away with the robbery. "Of course it makes you feel good, especially for our employee who he assaulted. In the end, I actually feel bad for his family and the effect it will have on them. I feel bad for the effect it will have on one of our personal employees and I would never hope that anyone gets shot. But I do hope that he will have to pay for his crime," owner Carla Parkinson said.
The deputy who shot Jaramillo has been placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure pending an investigation.
