West Valley police are piecing together Saturday’s domestic shooting
May 3, 2022, 4:41 PM
FILE PHOTO (Deseret News)
(Deseret News)
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah – Police are trying to figure out what led to a man being shot and another stabbed in a West Valley house on Saturday night.
According to an earlier West Valley City police statement, they booked 38-year-old Terica Savas-Caldwell for a felony charge of discharge of a firearm that night.
However, arresting documents show that this might be a case of self-defense.
In the arresting documents, police were called to the area of 4400 W Trinity Ave for shots fired and found a 48-year-old man with a gunshot wound in the back lying in the front of the house.
Police found a 32-year-old man in the kitchen with a stab wound near his neck.
Caldwell told police that the 48-year-old attempted to rape her, and he stabbed the 32-year-old who tried to intervene.
She then shot the 48-year-old.
Police said that Caldwell’s son overheard the fight upstairs.
He heard a man screaming “my neck, my neck,” with Caldwell asking, “why did you stab him” before seeing a man running away and being shot by his mother.
Both men were transported to the hospital with serious injuries but are now stable.
Caldwell fainted at the scene while talking to police and was transported to the hospital.
She wasn’t cooperating with police at the hospital and attempted to leave, which forced police to detain her there for the night.
