SALT LAKE CITY — Police arrested a Duchesne County man Thursday who they say answered a knock at his door while carrying a shotgun that discharged and hit a neighbor on the other side of his door.
Kyler John Smith, 21, of Myton, was shot in the head and died early Friday at a hospital, according to the Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office.
Michael Raymond Reyburn, 59, was arrested and booked into the Duchesne County Jail for investigation of manslaughter, carrying a concealed short-barreled shotgun, transaction of a dangerous weapon as a restricted person and drug charges.
He is being held without bail
About 2 p.m. Thursday, Smith was pounding on the door of Reyburn’s mobile home. Reyburn told detectives he was holding a sawed-off shotgun as he went to answer the door when the weapon discharged and fired through the door, striking Smith, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office.
Smith was flown by helicopter to a hospital and was pronounced dead the next morning.
Police say they found Reyburn on the floor of his mobile home with a sawed-off, double barrel .410 shotgun nearby, the sheriff’s office said. Deputies also reported finding methamphetamine, marijuana, digital scales and drug paraphernalia inside the trailer.
Police say Reyburn and Smith lived just one trailer away from each other.
Hours before Smith was shot, deputies said he had been threatened by another man while sitting outside of his home.
Nautika Malakhi Noon, 19, had gone to Smith’s trailer “several hours” earlier and threatened him with a pellet gun, the sheriff’s statement says. Deputies say the pellet gun looked like a high caliber pistol.
Noon was charged Friday in 8th District Court with aggravated assault, a third-degree felony. He is being held without bail.
Police are still investigating both incidents.