Cops nab Midvale triple-homicide suspect
A suspect in the triple manslaughter shootings at a Midvale house earlier this week was arrested Wednesday night.
Unified Police Department spokesman Lt. Justin Hoyal said David Fresques, 25, was nabbed about 9 p.m. Wednesday after the stolen pickup truck he was driving collided with a parked car at 300 E. Fenton Avenue (3800 South) in South Salt Lake.
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Fresques, who has gang ties and a long, violent criminal record, initially gave investigating officers a false name. The officers nonetheless recognized him, arrested him and notified UPD, Hoyal said. UPD officers then took Fresques into custody.
Fresques, who was not armed when arrested, had been on the run since Tuesday morning, after a man and two women were shot and killed at a home in Midvale described by UPD as a known drug house. A fourth person, a woman, was also shot and was in serious condition Thursday at an unspecified hospital.
Four other residents of the house — Jose Fernando Garcia, two other males and a female — were uninjured. Garcia and another resident, Esther Arrendondo, were facing eviction from the home.
Following his arrest, Fresques was interviewed by detectives and then booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for one count of aggravated murder, two counts of murder, one count of attempted aggravated murder, one count of aggravated burglary, and one count of possession of a firearm by a restricted person.
On Wednesday, Garcia, 38, was arrested on suspicion of obstructing justice, a first-degree felony, in the case. Garcia also was being held at the Salt Lake County Jail on suspicion of the misdemeanor crimes of lewdness, never obtaining a driver license, operating a vehicle without insurance and driving on a suspended driver license, jail records show.
According to a jail probable cause statement, Freques — known by the street moniker "Twisted" — had arrived at the Midvale house early Tuesday morning and gotten into an altercation over an unspecified issue with "one of his associates." Fresques, a witness told police, pulled a handgun and started shooting.
Fresques was identified by the survivors after police showed them a photo lineup, the probable cause statement says.
During an early Thursday morning news conference, Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder said Freques was being "extremely uncooperative" with detectives. The search continued for a second male suspect, the sheriff said.
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Winder cautioned that while the second suspect remained at large, Fresques' arrest "does not at all resolve this case." He had little information on the second suspect other than he was a male associate of Fresques and was believed to have been at the scene of the shootings.
Winder said he was nonetheless relieved to have Fresques "off the streets. [He is] an extremely dangerous individual [who allegedly] played a very active part in this tragedy."
Winder cautioned, too, about simply characterizing the slayings as a drug deal gone bad. "This is a complicated triple manslaughter, almost a quadruple manslaughter [and] we're still looking at what the motive might be and specifically what occurred."
Fresques has a long criminal record, having been sent to Utah State Prison in 2008 for one to 15 years in a robbery case. He was paroled in July 2010 but was returned to prison on a parole violation. He was most recently paroled in November, according to parole authorities.
UPD late Wednesday identified the three people killed in the shooting as Omar Paul Jarman, 35, Shontay Nichole Young, 34, and Danielle Beatrice Lucero, 26.
On the day of the shooting, prosecutors in 3rd District Court filed a third-degree felony charge of unlawful possession of another's identification and possession of drug paraphernalia, a class B misdemeanor, against Lucero. Court documents allege that Lucero and another man were inside a car using heroin in West Valley City earlier this month and that Lucero had identification cards belonging to four other women.
Lucero was scheduled to make an initial appearance on the charges on Thursday.
Court records for Young show that she had been charged with a few misdemeanors including shoplifting and disorderly conduct between 2003 and 2010 but had no cases pending.
Jarman's criminal record goes back to 1999, and in addition to a raft of traffic violations, domestic violence and child-support issues, includes felony drug possession and distribution counts.
On Jan. 28, a 3rd District judge had issued an arrest warrant for Jarman after he failed to appear in court on a charge of third-degree felony possession of a controlled substance.
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