Police arrest White City man in I-15 road rage shooting

A White City man was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail Wednesday in connection with a road rage freeway shooting on Nov. 26.

A White City man was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail Wednesday in connection with a road rage freeway shooting on Nov. 26. (Spenser Heaps, Deseret News)


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SOUTH SALT LAKE — Police have arrested a man accused of shooting at another vehicle while driving along I-15 in November.

David Michael Moody, 47, of White City, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Wednesday for investigation of attempted murder, illegal discharge of a firearm and possession of a weapon by a restricted person.

On Nov. 26 about 10 p.m., Moody was driving a Ford Ranger on I-15 between 3300 South and 4500 South when he became engaged in a road rage incident with another vehicle, according to the Utah Highway Patrol.

"David Moody drove alongside the victim while traveling at about 70 mph and fired one shot from a revolver directly at the victim. The victim escaped injury as the bullet did not penetrate all the way through the door of the vehicle the victim was driving," according to a police booking affidavit.

Although no one was injured, investigators noted in the affidavit that "based on the trajectory of the bullet, the victim was directly in the line of fire and could have been killed."

Witnesses were able to get either a full or partial license plate number and description of Moody's vehicle that investigators were able to track down, said UHP Lt. Nicholas Street. Police then searched Moody's home and found a .357 revolver and drug paraphernalia.

Street said the number of road rage incidents that result in a shooting seem to be on the rise. His advice to all motorists is to simply disengage with the other driver.

"There's no excuse to taking it to this level," Street said. "It doesn't make sense not to disengage early, especially given the amount of these incidents we've had in the last several months."

Street said in nearly all of the road rage incidents that have ended in violence, one or both of the involved parties had the chance to stop what they were doing before it got to the point of violence.

Moody is not believed to be connected to any other recent freeway shootings.

On Dec. 6, one man suffered minor injuries in a suspected road rage shooting on state Route 201 near 3800 West. Someone in a silver or white late 90s model Jeep Cherokee fired multiple rounds at the victims' vehicle, which had a baby in a car seat in the back. No arrests have been made in that case.

Investigators are also still looking for the person who shot five cars on I-15 in Juab County during the early hours of Nov. 30. Two people were injured.

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Pat Reavy interned with KSL NewsRadio in 1989 and has been a full-time journalist for either KSL NewsRadio, Deseret News or KSL.com since 1991. For the past 25 years, he has worked primarily the cops and courts beat.

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