Utah man shot and killed while attempting to ‘dodge a bullet,’ police say
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KEARNS, Utah (KSL.com) — Police arrested a man in the shooting death of another man in Kearns on Sunday following what appeared to be a game the two played to try and “dodge a bullet.”
Ashton Jonathon Mann, 23, was arrested for investigation of manslaughter and use of a firearm by a restricted person.
At 12:26 a.m. Sunday, Unified police officers were sent to 5269 South Charlotte Avenue in Kearns on a report of an assault with a weapon. Officers arrived to find Dylan Treichel, 23, unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the chest on the floor of a detached garage, according to a police booking affidavit. He was taken to the hospital, where he later died.
Mann told police that he and Treichel had smoked marijuana at 8 p.m. Saturday, the affidavit states. Mann further said that they were talking about guns.
He said he and Treichel were handling two different handguns, when Treichel “said he could dodge a bullet,” according to the affidavit, and both unloaded the guns.
Mann “said he then pointed the handgun at DT and pulled the trigger. He said DT would try to jump out of the way to prove he could move before the trigger was pulled,” the affidavit says. He said the two “repeated this about six times.”
Police said Mann told them that “in order to reset the trigger, he would cycle the slide on the handgun.”
“He said the final time the gun fired, striking DT in the chest,” the affidavit states. Mann told police that Treichel told him “to call 911 because he had been shot.”