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SALT LAKE CITY — A man was shot and a woman was arrested Friday following an argument over a parking spot in an alley, Salt Lake police said.
The shooting occurred around midnight on Friday morning at 369 S. 940 West. Police said they responded to a report that shots had been fired and located two people "with bruising and abrasions consistent with a fight," according to a police booking affidavit. A bullet hole was found in the back window of a vehicle at the scene.
The 31-year-old woman believed to have been involved initially denied knowledge of a shooting, but later admitted she fired her own gun after claiming she heard shots during the altercation with the man, police said. Officers located a 33-year-old man in a nearby residence with a gunshot wound to his shoulder.
Salt Lake police released a statement Friday afternoon that said the investigation has determined Vanessa Johnson pulled out a gun and shot the victim after the two got into a fight over a parking spot in a nearby alley. Police said paramedics treated the man's wound at the scene and he did not need to go to the hospital.
The two were not cooperative with the investigation and after a search warrant was executed, officers found a handgun under the driver's seat of Johnson's car, the affidavit states.
The woman was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of aggravated assault and felony discharge of a firearm.
