MAGNA — A man accused of driving a 22-year-old man out to a remote area near Saltair in 2016 and fatally shooting him has been charged.

Casteil “Slim” Franlink Hamlett, 38, was arrested on Thursday in connection with the nearly decade-old homicide and on Monday was charged in 3rd District Court with murder and discharge of a firearm, first-degree felonies, and obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony.

The tangled web of associations and betrayals came to a head on Feb. 11, 2016, when the body of Chandler Michael Cooper , who lived in the Holladay-Millcreek area, was found by hikers near a trail by Saltair, a few hundred yards from the intersection of the North Temple Frontage Road and 11500 West. Investigators determined he had been shot twice and killed.

Two shell casings

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