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TAYLORSVILLE, Utah (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old West Valley City woman in a parking lot at a Taylorsville apartment complex (all times local):
11:20 a.m.
Police in Salt Lake City have released four teenagers who were briefly taken into custody for questioning in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old West Valley City woman in a parking lot at an apartment complex.
KUTV (http://tinyurl.com/mpooxd3 ) identified the victim of Monday's early morning shooting as Maria Alegandra Ayala of West Valley City. She was found dead inside a car with a gunshot wound to the head.
Police say the four juveniles — three boys and a girl ages 14 and 15 — lived in the Callaway Apartments where officers responded to reports of shots fired at about 1:15 a.m. Monday.
Lt. Brian Lohrke told the Deseret News three of the four were documented gang members but investigators haven't determined whether the killing was gang-related.
He said the teens appeared to have bene "flopping" at one of the apartment units on 1094 W. Clubhouse Drive on the border of West Valley city and Taylorsville.
All four were questioned and released to their guardians.
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Salt Lake City police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old West Valley woman in a parking lot at an apartment complex in Taylorsville.
Police said Monday they have questioned four teenagers but don't currently consider them suspects in what they suspect was a gang-related killing.
Lt. Brian Lohrke says officers responding to a report of shots fired found the woman with a fatal gunshot wound to the head inside a car that collided with parked vehicles shortly before 1:30 a.m. Monday at the Callaway Apartments near 1100 West and 3900 South.
He says several shell casings were found on the road, as well as inside the vehicle that crashed about 75 yards away.
Witnesses reported the four teens — including one with a bloody shirt — went into the apartment complex shortly after the shots were fired.
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Information from: KUTV-TV, http://www.kutv.com/
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