Layton, UTAH – Authorities say the shooting occurred right before 11 p.m. Tuesday. It happened happened near 400 N Main Street.. The 911 caller told officers that someone stopped him and told him that he had just been shot in the leg.
The responding officers discovered that a man and a woman were sitting in a pickup truck when the woman’s ex-boyfriend approached them and shot both of them.
Police say the female victim was able to get out of the truck before the suspect starting firing shots from a handgun.
The suspect fired three shots, only hitting the man once in the leg.
Authorities arrested the suspect shortly after. He was arrested in a trailer on a property in Clinton where they served a search warrant with the help of a SWAT team and took him into custody.
His name is Aaron Lopez Gaitan and he was being held without bond.