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MILLCREEK — Unified Police took a 16-year-old boy into custody Tuesday after witnesses said he pointed a gun on a TRAX platform and fired a shot at another teen.
Before 7 p.m., Unified officers responded to the Utah Transit Authority Meadowbrook TRAX station, at 188 W. 3900 South, on reports of a shot fired as other police combed surrounding neighborhoods for the suspected shooter.
UTA Police Lt. Paul Nielson said surveillance footage from the platform shows the teen did, in fact, pull out a gun and point it.
"There's a group of them that get off the train together. They seem to be friends," Nielson told KSL-TV. "He was pointing (the gun) at what appears to be another female juvenile and they run towards the apartments. We don't even have a victim at this point."
After the apparent shot reported by witnesses, police said everyone from the group took off running.
"We then canvassed the area looking for the shooter that ran north toward the apartments, found that person in a dumpster in the apartments," Nielson said.
Officers could be seen combing the railroad tracks for any signs of evidence and for the gun itself.
A UTA spokesman later said the gun was recovered at the same apartment complex where officers located the teen suspect.
Meanwhile, police said they were still hoping to find the teen's alleged target to get her side of what happened. Nielson said police were glad the situation didn't end worse than it did.
"You don't want to see that anywhere—especially (on the) Fourth of July (with) people using the system," he said.
