A man who as in jail Thursday on suspicion of firing a shot at a grocery store that injured himself and three bystanders — including a 3-year-old Las Vegas girl who was in Utah for cancer treatment and her mother — told police that he had “nearly dropped” the gun when it went off.
A probable cause statement for 36-year-old Rufino Joseph Cervantez says that officers were dispatched to Smith’s grocery store, 4065 S. Redwood Road in West Valley City, at 1:47 p.m. Wednesday on a report of shots fired.
When officers arrived at the scene, witnesses told them that the suspect, later identified as Cervantez, stood at the entry to the store, pointed a firearm inside and began firing, according to the document.