WEST JORDAN — Police arrested a 20-year-old man who they say fired a round through his hotel room floor on New Year’s Eve, apparently on accident, into a room occupied by a woman and her child.
West Jordan police were called to a hotel just before midnight and found several people inside the room where the shooting occurred.
“The (man) had brought his firearm to the hotel room and had begun showing the other three occupants. (He) removed the slide out of the firearm and claimed he was beginning to rack the slide to remove the loaded round. While this action was beginning, (he) had his finger on the trigger and discharged the loaded round of the firearm,” according to a police booking affidavit…