Inset, top to bottom: Jacob H. Johnson (Utah Department of Corrections) and Summer Tatiana Roney (Facebook). Background: The 7-Eleven where police say Johnson was arrested with Roney’s body in the backseat of his car (KSTU).
A 40-year-old man in Utah has been arrested for allegedly killing his girlfriend after authorities found her badly beaten body in the back of his car in a 7-Eleven parking lot.
Jacob Johnson was taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with one count of murder, court documents reviewed by Law&Crime show.
According to a probable cause affidavit, officers with the Herriman Police Department at 12:10 a.m. on Dec. 31 responded to an agency assist call from Saratoga Springs Police regarding “a DUI investigation where a deceased female was located inside the vehicle.” The vehicle in question was located in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven in the 15000 block of South Redwood Road in Bluffdale, Utah, which is about 25 miles south of Salt Lake City.
