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SALT LAKE CITY — A man who told police he had stayed up all night drinking and doing cocaine was arrested for allegedly firing multiple rounds at a vehicle.
David Barnett, 34, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Tuesday for investigation of theft of a firearm, illegal shooting and intoxication.
On Tuesday, Barnett got out of a vehicle near 300 S. West Temple and then fired approximately seven rounds at the vehicle as it drove away, according to a police booking affidavit.
As of Wednesday, police had not found the vehicle or its occupants or received any reports of someone injured by gunfire related to the incident.
Witnesses helped police track down Barnett and arrest him. He told investigators that he "meant to shoot the driver's side back door and purposely did not shoot the driver. (He) admitted that they had been drinking and doing cocaine all night and was still intoxicated," the affidavit states.
The gun, which police found discarded in a nearby garbage can, was determined to be stolen, according to the affidavit.
Police noted that at the time of his arrest, Barnett was on "good behavior probation" from a weapons conviction in 2018. Barnett told officers that after that case, he went to California and only recently returned to Utah.
