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A 19-year-old Florida man — who has allegedly admitted to fatally shooting three people in South Salt Lake last week — was booked Monday into the Salt Lake County jail.
Gerald R. Grant, whose last known address is in Miami, was booked on suspicion of three counts of first-degree felony aggravated murder for the deaths of a teen boy and two men following a Thursday shooting in South Salt Lake.
Grant had admitted to witnesses that he shot all three victims, according to a probable cause statement filed with the jail.
On Saturday night, police confirmed a 20-year-old man had died. His 19-year-old brother had already died from the shooting.
So had a 17-year-old boy.
All three were wounded Thursday night and a fourth man — Grant — was injured by a gunshot to the leg.
The 17-year-old has been identified as Armando Cuenca-Curiel. Police have not released the identities of either brother.
The shootings occurred about 8 p.m. Thursday inside a Ford Explorer in the area of 300 East and Park Creeke Lane (3060 South), said Gary Keller, spokesman for South Salt Lake police.
The Ford, with the four people inside, turned onto Park Creeke Lane and stopped in the middle of the street, Keller said. Then some sort of "altercation erupted" inside the vehicle where shots were fired, Keller added.
Video captured by a nearby home security camera shows a man — allegedly Grant — exiting the vehicle and hobbling away before he was picked up by a white car.
Grant turned up later at a hospital with a gunshot wound in his left leg — but he was not dropped off by the white car that picked him up from the scene. Investigators have learned that multiple drivers passed him before a silver Mercedes dropped him off at the hospital, Keller said.
Police were seeking no other suspects or victims, Keller said Friday.
Cuenca-Curiel, who died at the scene, lived just five or six blocks from the shooting scene and was "a close family friend" to the injured brothers, who are Salt Lake City residents, Keller said.
Grant's criminal record is limited to a charge last year of possessing a controlled substance with intent to distribute, for which he took a plea in abeyance on Feb. 5. A judge ordered that the case against Grant would be dropped after 24 months if he complied with all of the conditions of his probation, according to court documents.
In October, a Salt Lake City officer stopped a vehicle Grant was driving, with two passengers, and smelled a strong odor of marijuana, according to the charges. The officer allegedly found four guns, 500 rounds of ammunition and 83 grams of marijuana in the vehicle.
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