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SALT LAKE CITY — Two men were charged Monday in connection with the stabbing and beating death of a man at a Salt Lake apartment complex.
Taddy Avalon Jackman, 43, is charged in 3rd District Court with murder and possession of a weapon by a restricted person, first-degree felonies. Ivy Chase Grant, 26, was charged with obstructing justice, a second-degree felony.
On Feb. 2, Charles Alires, 34, was stabbed three times at the Palmer Court Apartments, 999 S. Main, including once in the chest and once in the back. Police found him on the ground on a basketball court, as well as a blood trail that led to the stairwell of the courtyard entrance where a large amount of blood was found, charging documents state.
Surveillance video shows that Grant was in the stairwell shaking hands and hugging other people when Alires "walked down the stairs and immediately a fistfight broke out between Alires and Grant," according to the charges. "During the fight, a male later identified as Taddy Jackman pulled out a knife and stabbed Alires several times."
Grant and Jackman continued to hit Alires after he was on the ground, the charges state.
"Jackman stabbed Alires one final time and kicked him. The group dispersed and Alires sat on the ground for several minutes before getting up and walking toward the basketball court," prosecutors wrote in the charging documents.
One witness told police that Alires called Grant a name before the initial fistfight started.
"The witness said when Chuck fell on the floor, he was looking at Jackman and said, 'Oh, you stabbed me,'" the charges state.
When Grant was arrested, he denied being in a fight or even visiting Palmer Court, even when police say they showed him surveillance photos of him being there.
Grant made headlines in 2019 for getting into a scuffle at a modest dress shop. He was convicted in that case of making a terroristic threat and in October was placed on three years of probation.
Jackman is a former Public Enemy No. 1 who was arrested in connection with the shootings of three people in 2003 and later convicted on federal weapons charges. Prosecutors note that he "has violated parole and been returned to the Utah State Prison approximately five times and has been in and out of prison for the last 26 years."
