‘It’s almost poetic’: Buried gun and rare ammo lead to charges in deadly road rage shooting, but not for the killing — leaving victim’s family outraged

Inset: Road rage shooting victim Patrick Hayes (GoFundMe). Background: Memorial for Patrick Hayes set up at Jordanelle State Park in Utah where he was killed (KSL/YouTube).

Inset: Road rage shooting victim Patrick Hayes (GoFundMe). Background: Memorial for Patrick Hayes set up at Jordanelle State Park in Utah where he was killed (KSL/YouTube).

A motorist in Utah shot and killed another driver during a road-rage dispute, using a .45-caliber handgun and rare hollow-point ammo, which he later stashed and buried after the incident, along with not calling cops — despite claiming that he acted in self-defense, according to police. Authorities in Wasatch County apparently believe the man, charging him with obstruction of justice this week and nothing related to the actual killing, to the shock of the victim’s family.

“I can understand self-defense in the sense of protecting yourself, but that kind of goes out the window, in my opinion, when you follow somebody,” said Christian Hayes, son of victim Patrick Hayes, 61, in an interview published by local NBC affiliate KSL on Christmas Day.

“The hardest thing is he’s not coming back,” Christian said. “Like, no matter what happens, my dad’s gone — that’s kind of the fact of everything, and that’s terrible.”

Patrick Hayes, described by his son and a family GoFundMe page as a “larger than life” father, small businessman and former NCAA All-American swimmer and water polo player, was allegedly killed by Greg Kyle DeBoer, 62, at Jordanelle State Park on Sept. 25, according to the Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office.

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