Teen stabbed and killed during fight in Herriman, police say

HERRIMAN — A 16-year-old boy is dead after being stabbed on the street Wednesday afternoon, Herriman police said. 

Herriman Police Department Deputy Chief Cody Stromberg said the stabbing happened at approximately 12:30 p.m. on Beckenbauer Avenue after an altercation between two groups of people on the road.

“I just saw a lot of young kids, they were running back and forth, and there was crying, hugging each other,” said Irma Rios, a resident in the neighborhood. “I saw one, he was without a shirt, and he wanted to go to the car, but the police and the paramedics didn’t let him go.”

Stromberg said the teen killed was stabbed in the chest and was found by first responders in a car. EMTs performed first aid on the teen, but he died from his injuries. Rios said she noticed some girls telling police they were trying to keep another vehicle from leaving the scene.

“I just hear the girls saying that it was a bunch of them, and they are trying to stop because they know them,” she said.

Later in the investigation, Stromberg said police identified at least four suspects who were involved in the stabbing and located two of them at a Riverton house on Daggerwing Way.

Police said they found the car that fled the scene at the Riverton house, and the car belonged to one of the four suspects.

Stromberg said South Valley SWAT responded to assist police with approaching the house due to the previous history of some of the people in the house. He said that the other two suspects were driven by family members to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police believe the suspects and the victim left the nearby Valley High School graduation ceremony when the two parties began to fight on Beckenbauer Drive.

Stromberg said four other people — two women, a man, and a juvenile boy — were detained and being interviewed by police. One of the people was in the Riverton house.

Police report that the killed teen did not live in the neighborhood where he was stabbed but did not say where he lived or why he was in the neighborhood.

Stromberg confirmed that investigators are treating this case as a homicide. He said the investigation could take several hours before more information is released.