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OR TELL YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS AS WELL. ALL RIGHT. BRITTANY. THANKS. PLEASANT GROVE POLICE MADE AN ARREST ON FRIDAY FOR A CELEBRATORY GUNFIRE INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED ON NEW YEARS EVE. WVTM 13 ZOE BLAIR SPOKE WITH THEIR POLICE CHIEF TODAY. ZOE, THEY SAY ITS USUALLY HARD TO MAKE AN ARREST IN THESE TYPES OF CASES. YEAH. JARVIS. THATS RIGHT. USUALLY WHEN CELEBRATORY GUNFIRE HAPPENS, THE POLICE CHIEF HERE IN PLEASANT GROVE SAYS ITS HARD FOR THEM TO FIGURE OUT WHO FIRED THE SHOTS. THANKS TO A VIDEO THAT WAS POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA, THEY WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO MAKE AN ARREST FOR GUNFIRE THAT HIT A CAR ON NEW YEARS EVE. WE WERE ABLE TO GET OUR HANDS ON THAT VIDEO. TAKE A LOOK. POLICE CHIEF DANNY REED SAYS THIS VIDEO IS CONCERNING FOR SEVERAL REASONS. THERES A CHILD THERE JUST FEET AWAY. AND WHAT IS THIS SAYING TO THE CHILD? A AS A PARENT OF A VERY SMALL CHILD, THIS HAS GOT TO BE TERRIFYING TO THE CHILD. I MEAN, DO THEY NOT, YOU KNOW, CONSIDER THE CHILD. REED SAYS BY SHOWING THIS TO YOUNG CHILDREN, THEYRE TEACHING THEM THAT ITS OKAY. THIS IS A LEARNED EVENT. YOU KNOW, YOU YOU CAN SEE THAT CHILD OUT THERE LEARNING HOW ITS GOING TO DO. THE PEOPLE SAID THAT THEY DID IT WITH THEIR PARENTS. THEYRE LEARNING THAT THIS IS WHAT YOURE SUPPOSED TO DO. REED SAYS THE SHOOTER THOUGHT THEY WERE FIRING INTO THE WOODS, BUT THAT WASNT THE CASE. WHERE THEYRE SHOOTING IS AN ELEVATED POSITION, AND BELOW THEM IS AN ACTIVE ROADWAY, ONE OF THE MOST BUSY ROADS WE HAVE IN PLEASANT GROVE. AND SO THEYRE SHOOTING FROM THERE DOWN INTO THE ROADWAY. AND A VEHICLE WAS HIT AS IT WAS DRIVING BY. IT GOT STRUCK IN THE PASSENGER SIDE. LAGAN COLLINS CAN BE SEEN IN THE VIDEO SHOOTING TOWARDS THE ROADWAY. ON FRIDAY, HE WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT AND DISCHARGING A FIREARM IN CITY LIMITS. BOTH ARE MISDEMEANORS, BUT REED SAYS THE BULLETS WERE JUST INCHES AWAY FROM MORE SERIOUS CHARGES. PEOPLE DIE AS A RESULT OF IT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE GET HIT, PEOPLE GET HURT AND THAT RUINS EVERYBODYS LIFE. THE PERSON DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD GETS HIT AND GETS KILLED. YEAH, THAT RUINS THEM AND THEIR FAMILY LIFE. BUT ALSO THE PERSON THAT DID THE SHOOTING, YOU KNOW, THEY DONT NECESSARILY INTEND TO SHOOT PEOPLE. STILL, REEDS BIGGEST CONCERN IS THE CHILD BEING SO CLOSE TO THE VIOLENCE. YOU HAVE SOME HORRENDOUS PARENTING, YOU KNOW? I MEAN, WHY ARE WE GOING TO BREAK OUR CHILD OUT HERE TO SOMETHING LIKE THIS WITH NO HEARING PROTECTION? AND AGAIN, LIKE I KEEP HARPING ON, WERE TEACHING THIS CHILD THIS IS WHAT YOURE SUPPOSED TO DO. OF THE EIGHT PEOPLE SEEN IN THAT VIDEO, COLLINS IS THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS BEEN ARRESTED SO FAR. REED SAYS THEY HOPE TO IDENTIFY THE OTHER SHOOTERS AND PURSUE MORE CHARGES. LIVE