KEARNS, Utah — Two additional people have been taken into custody in connection with the weekend incident that led to the shooting death of a 17-year-old in the Kearns High School parking lot, which started with the intent to sell champagne bottles, according to the arrest report of a man involved.
Both of the most recent suspects were apprehended while at the Horizonte Instruction and Training Center in Salt Lake City.
Tesfaye Shabi, 18, was arrested Monday on murder and aggravated robbery charges, the same day as Brandon Ray Hollins, 18, was also taken into custody on the same charges. It's not known if the other suspect apprehended at the school was also arrested.
Unified Police report the shooting occurred at 1:49 a.m. Sunday, when a man claimed he was sitting in his car in the school parking lot when another vehicle, driven by Hollins, approached with four people inside. According to the arrest report, the man said he was at the school to sell the champagne to people he had been communicating with through social media.
The man told police that he moved to his trunk where the bottles were when he saw two men with ski masks on in the backseat of the other car driven by Hollins. He said when the men allegedly got out of the car, they had firearms, leading him to grab a Glock that was inside his own vehicle.
As he went to grab his gun, the man claimed one of the other men held a gun to his head and ordered him to open the trunk. While holding his Glock, the man began shooting at the two men "who had come at him with their guns," police wrote.
The man said he continued shooting at the others as he ran away from the scene, which was confirmed by police who found 9mm shell casings by the car. Surveillance video also showed a gun muzzle blast "several times" as the man ran towards a road nearby.
During the incident, a person wearing a red hoodie is seen falling down after presumably being shot. As the deceased person is lying on the ground, someone from the vehicle he arrived in gets out and begins picking up "unidentified items" and then drives away from the scene.
The man who fled the scene on foot flagged down police following the shooting as they responded to the school.
Using the video footage, police were able to identify the vehicle that fled the parking lot as well as the name of the 17-year-old through his family. The vehicle, a 2016 Honda Accord, was traced back to Brandon Hollins of Murray.
Hollins was later arrested at his Murray apartment, where police found a smaller AR-style weapon and similar ammunition to that found in the parking lot. According to the latest court documents, Shabi was the other person who got out of the vehicle with a weapon before returning and said the 17-year-old "is dead."
