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SALT LAKE CITY — A Washington man accused of traveling to Salt Lake and shooting another man, possibly in retaliation for a prior shooting incident at Hunter High School, has been arrested.
Charles Wight, 20, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Monday for investigation of aggravated assault resulting in serious injury and aggravated burglary.
On Jan. 19, just before 4:30 a.m., Salt Lake police responded to a shooting near 750 N. 900 West. The victim, a 24-year-old man, told police that "at least two suspects had kicked in the door to his apartment and shot him from the doorway," according to a police booking affidavit. The man was shot in the leg.
There were also several juveniles in the apartment at the time of the shooting. The victim told detectives that he believed one of the suspects was Wight and that Wight was accusing one of the juveniles in the apartment "of shooting Charles' brother in a previous incident near Hunter High School," according to the affidavit.
Salt Lake City police on Monday could not say when that alleged previous incident occurred or if it was related to the shooting deaths of two Hunter High students that happened six days earlier, stating that the Jan. 19 incident was still being investigated.
Both the juvenile and the man who was shot provided police with information about Wight, "including screenshots from social media of Charles making threats to come and shoot (the juvenile). Included in these screenshots were photos of Charles Wight from his social media account," the affidavit states.
Investigators were able to determine that Wight was in the area at the time of the shooting. They also determined that a carjacking reported in West Valley approximately 20 minutes prior to the shooting may be related, according to the affidavit.
"After the shooting, Charles Wight continued to send threatening messages to the victim stating that he was coming back to finish the job and that this time he would kill the victim," the affidavit states.
Police say Wight lives in Washington and left Utah at least once after the shooting. Details on how Wight was arrested were not immediately available Monday.
