GLENDALE — A man was critically injured in a shooting that police believe may have been gang-related Wednesday night.
Salt Lake police and a police dog found three men in a camper about a block from the crime scene at 949 E. 500 South an hour after the victim was shot just before 11 p.m.
Police believe the shooting occurred after three men had been arguing with the victim and had left the area that night. Witnesses told police the men returned and fired four to five shots at the victim, one of the bullets hitting him in the back and going through his stomach, said Salt Lake Police Lt. James Tracy.
The victim, a man in his 20s, was transported to Intermountain Medical Center in Murray in critical condition. He is expected to survive.
Police located a possible weapon, a 9 mm handgun, about a block away in some shrubbery outside a house on the corner of 600 South and 1000 West, Tracy said.
Junior, a bloodhound police dog who was sniffing around the area, found the weapon. The dog was returned to the same house almost an hour later and reportedly caught the three men hiding in a camper.
The three men, all 18 years old who live in the area, were arrested and later booked into the Salt Lake County Jail.
The Salt Lake Metro Gang Unit will continue investigating. Police said the victim and suspects are all in gangs.
— Lana Groves