Woman found dead inside vehicle at Mona gas station
Aug 22, 2021, 10:05 PM | Updated: Jul 14, 2023, 3:26 pm
The driver of a fatal hit-and-run crash in Salt Lake City last fall is facing criminal charges. (Getty Images)
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MONA, Utah — Deputies with the Juab County Sheriff’s Office are investigating after a woman was found dead inside a car at a gas station in Mona.
They were dispatched to a disturbance at the Park and Pump gas station around 12:55 p.m. Sunday.
Officers with the Nephi Police Department also arrived on scene to help.
During their investigation, deputies said a woman was found dead inside a car.
They said she had been shot.
Two men from South Dakota — David Manuel Mestas, 26, of Sioux Falls, and Richard Anthony Sanchez, 26, of Rapid City — were arrested and booked into the Juab County Jail in the case.
Juab County deputies said they were investigating the death as a homicide.
The woman’s body has been taken to the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner so she could be identified and an official cause of death be determined.
