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Sandra Yi reportingKellie Kenison: "IT WAS REALLY SCARY. AT FIRST, I WAS AFRAID TO LET MY HUSBAND COME OUT."
Gunshots ring out in a quiet Kearns neighborhood overnight. One man is fatally shot and a suspect is now in custody.
The shooting happened just before 3 o'clock this morning near 6176 S. 4265 West.
Police say this was the end to a fight over money.
Kellie Kenison: "I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT BEFORE, SO IT'S REALLY SCARY."
Kellie Kenison awoke to gunshots, early this morning.
Kellie Kenison: "WE HEARD QUITE A NUMBER OF GUNSHOTS, MAYBE 5 OR 6."
Outside, 29 year old Brauiio Cortez had been shot.
Witnesses say the injured victim, veered his car into a neighbor's lawn.
There is shattered glass on the street, where a bullet hit the windshield and markings where casings were found.
Kellie Kenison: "AND WHEN I WENT OVER THERE, THEY HAD HIM PULLED OUT ON THE LAWN AND HIS BROTHER WAS HOLDING HIM IN HIS ARMS AND JUST CRYING HIS NAME OUT."
Deputies say the victim and the alleged shooter, 27 year old Eduardo Barba, have been involved in a feud for months.
Peggy Faulkner, Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office: "THIS IS A HISTORICAL CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE TWO MEN. THEY HAD SOME KIND OF DISAGREEMENT OVER MONEY. ONE OWNED THE OTHER MONEY."
Deputies say the two had a verbal confrontation before the shooting, here, at Centro Civico, an Hispanic community center in Salt Lake City. They then got in their cars, and the suspect chased the victim, to this residential circle in Kearns.
Kellie Kenison: "LOOKED LIKE THEY HAD JUST GONE UP AROUND THE CIRCLE AND AS THEY WERE COMING DOWN, THE OTHER VEHCILE CAME UP AND SHOT HIM."
Peggy Faulkner, Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office: "WHEN WE GET INTO CHASES AS THEY GO, THEY'RE TRYING TO GET AWAY AND THEY END UP IN A CIRCLE AND GET TRAPPED IN THERE."
Police are still investigating. Meanwhile, people in this neighborhood are trying to make sense of what happened.
Kellie Kenison: "CAUSE THAT'S WHAT'S NICE ABOUT LIVING IN A CIRCLE. YOU DON'T HAVE THE TRAFFIC AND THE THINGS."
Police caught the suspect in West Valley City, after they ran the license place of the car he was in. They say neither he nor the victim have a criminal history in Salt Lake County.
