A Salt Lake City man was charged with multiple counts of attempted murder Monday after prosecutors say he crashed his car into six female pedestrians — targeted at random — over the last seven months.
A Salt Lake City police vehicle sits near the site where a driver crashed into a pedestrian and left the scene on March 11, 2024. Prosecutors on March 25, 2024, brought attempted murder charges against 26-year-old Ahn Pham, who police linked to at least three other such crashes.
“These were allegedly predatory targetings shrouded in the shadow of accidents,” Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said of Pham’s case Monday. But prosecutors say Pham ultimately told investigators that the car was “only mine,” and said, ”I don’t let anyone drive,” according to charging documents. His vehicle was missing a front bumper and had “extensive damage” to its right passenger side.
Investigators reviewed home security footage from the area and saw a Toyota Avalon driving down the road three times before the crash. On the third pass, footage shows the car “driving slowly in the bicycle lane.” One of them described the vehicle as “an older white sedan.” Both women were concussed and received lacerations and fractures.
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