FARMINGTON — The driver who police say was stabbed and thrown from a moving vehicle on the I-15 freeway has been identified as a Fruit Heights woman.
Shilo Marie Stewart, 34, was killed after Utah Highway Patrol troopers say she was stabbed multiple times while driving near Lagoon and then thrown out of the vehicle while it was still traveling at freeway speed.
Oscar Cuevas-Landa, 18, of West Valley City, was booked into the Davis County Jail for investigation of murder and aggravated assault resulting in serious injury.
The incident happened about 9:50 p.m. Sunday. Cuevas told investigators he did not know Stewart and that she was giving him a ride to West Valley City — even though their vehicle was headed north — when she “looked at him funny, so he stabbed the victim several times,” according to a police affidavit.
Cuevas was arrested a short distance away in Farmington. Additional details about how the two people came to be in the same car were still being investigated Tuesday.
A GoFundMe account apparently set up by Stewart’s family remembers her as a thoughtful person who “always put others before she put herself.”
“Shilo was taken tragically by a ruthless immature violent person,” the site says. “All Shilo was trying to do was help a stranger in need and that’s the type of person that she was.”
Formal charges against Cuevas were also pending Tuesday.
