Late Monday morning, a 16-year-old was sleeping in his family’s home on North Dustin in Farmington when he heard a volley of gunfire.
When he looked outside he saw police officers entering the house where his friend lived, just down the block. The 16-year-old sent his friend a SnapChat, thinking he was at school, to let him know what was going on.
He never heard back. Police say Beau Wilson, 18, roamed up and down the street — a busy thoroughfare lined with churches and homes abutting a quiet middle class neighborhood — shooting indiscriminately into houses and cars. They said he used three different weapons, including an “AR-style rifle.”
Three women, all over the age of 70, were killed and six others, including two police officers, were injured. The teenager was armed with three weapons including an AR-15-style rifle when he began firing randomly at cars and houses in the suburb of Farmington where he lived on Monday, said Deputy Police Chief Baric Crum said at a news conference on Tuesday.
He was killed by police after wounding two officers.
Police said the three victims included an elderly mother in her 90s and her daughter, who was aged in her 70s who died at the scene after their car was fired upon. A third women also in her 70s died in hospital.
The assault weapon had been legally purchased and belonged to a family member of the suspect, police said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Wilson, a Farmington High School senior, roamed across a quarter mile area of the city just before 11am targeting “whatever entered his head to shoot at”, Police Chief Steve Hebbe said.
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