MAN SOUGHT IN DEATHS ARRESTED
Austin Boutain, above, surrendered after dodging police on a 15-hour manhunt in Salt Lake City on Tuesday. He is suspected in the death of a 23year-old University of Utah student and a 63-year-old Golden man.
SALT LAKE CITY» A man sought in the fatal attempted carjacking of a University of Utah student and believed to be connected to the killing of a Colorado man was arrested Tuesday after he surrendered to authorities at a Salt Lake City library, police said.
Austin Boutain, 24, dodged a manhunt in the rugged foothills near campus for nearly 15 hours before his arrest miles away in the death of ChenWei Guo.
Guo, a 23-year-old student from China, was shot to death Monday evening during an attempted carjacking and found dead in his car in Red Butte Canyon on the edge of campus.
In addition, police in Golden have said they want to question Boutain about the killing of a 63-year-old man whose pickup had been driven by Boutain in Utah. They found 63-year-old Mitchell Bradford Ingle dead in his trailer at the Clear Creek RV Park in central Golden while conducting a welfare check Tuesday for Salt Lake police.
Boutain, 24, and his wife, 23-year-old Kathleen Elizabeth Rose Boutain, are people of interest in Ingle’s death. Both are in custody in Salt Lake City.
Golden spokeswoman Karlyn Tilley said investigators are not sure how Ingle and the Boutains are connected. Salt Lake City police also said they are not “100 percent sure” how Ingle’s truck is involved.
Kathleen Boutain, who is held on theft and drug charges unrelated to the campus shooting, told police that she and her husband traveled to Salt Lake City in a stolen vehicle, according to her arrest affidavit.
Before the shooting, Kathleen Boutain had gone to the University of Utah campus to report that her husband had assaulted her while the two were camping at the adjacent Red Butte Canyon campgrounds, Wilking said. Shortly after, Guo was killed in a carjacking, he said.
“Unfortunately, the victim was up in the area and there was a ‘wrong place, wrong time’ situation,” Salt Lake City police Detective Greg Wilking said.