WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (KSL.com) — Play-fighting at a summer barbecue in West Valley City went too far when one of the guests dumped hot coals onto another man, police say.

Now, Jose Enrique Pena-Negrin, 29, address unknown, was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with aggravated assault resulting in serious injury, a second-degree felony.

West Valley police responded to an incident at a backyard barbecue near 4400 South and 2700 West on Aug. 31. One man told officers that “he was at a barbecue with friends and they were play-fighting with the water hose,” according to charging documents. “A video recording of the incident … shows him spraying Pena-Negrin with a hose in a playful manner and Pena-Negrin is seen laughing.”

The man using the hose was then wrestled to the ground by anothe

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