Security guard charged with shooting, critically injuring property owner’s friend

  • A security guard in Salt Lake City was charged Thursday with shooting a man.
  • Amos Gerson Lucero faces four charges, including illegal gun discharge and aggravated assault.
  • The victim remains hospitalized in critical condition after the Monday night incident.

SALT LAKE CITY — A security guard was charged Thursday with shooting and critically injuring another man in Salt Lake City.

Amos Gerson Lucero, 66, of Salt Lake City, is charged in 3rd District Court with illegal discharge of a gun causing serious injury, a first-degree felony; aggravated assault resulting in serious injury, a second-degree felony; being a restricted person in possession of a gun, a third-degree felony; and marijuana possession, a class B misdemeanor.

Salt Lake police were called about 11:50 p.m. Monday to 601 S. Iron Rose Place (3830 West) on a report of a shooting. Officers arrived to find Curtis Sorensen, 41, with a gunshot wound. He told police that he was “shot by the security guard,” according to charging documents…

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