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WEST JORDAN — A Salt Lake woman was charged Thursday with helping her friend get away after that friend allegedly shot a man in West Jordan.
Alexandra "Alex" Chantell Trujillo, 32, is charged in 3rd District Court with obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony.
Just after 5 a.m. on Oct. 22, West Jordan police responded to a shooting at the Heartland Mountain View Apartments, 7050 S. 1300 West. A man reported that a woman known by her moniker "Soldier" had shot his friend, according to a police booking affidavit. Based on her moniker and description of her face tattoos, police said they identified the shooter as 22-year-old Aaliyah Melanie Villagrana.
However, after police were called, both she and the victim fled from the apartment, the affidavit states. The man who was shot was found critically injured in a nearby neighborhood.
"The bullet entered into the right side of his chest, puncturing two lungs, and his liver," according to court documents.
When police were able to interview the man, he said he and two women, including Villagrana, were at his apartment when he began arguing with Villagrana because she believed he had been saying bad things about her. That's when she shot the man, the charges state.
Villagrana was charged with discharge of a gun, a first-degree felony, and obstructing justice, a second-degree felony.
After the shooting, Villagrana got in the passenger side of her car that was driven by Trujillo — the other woman present that night — who then drove her from the apartment complex and took the gun after dropping off her friend, according to charging documents.
"Detectives obtained phone warrants and found Trujillo had sent text messages to (the victim's) mother informing her of him being shot and taken to the hospital. Trujillo sent text messages stating she was in possession of Aaliyah's car and (was) going to dump it. Trujillo deleted her Facebook account shortly after the shooting," the charges say.
