3 questions with Bob Evans: Deserae Turner, shooting survivor

In February of 2017, then 14-year-old Deserae Turner was lured by classmates Jayzen Decker and Colter Peterson to a dry canal in Smithfield in Cache County.  The 16-year-old boys planned to kill Deserae, because they’d become annoyed by her social media posts.  She was shot in the back of the head, but survived for eight hours in that muddy ditch, when she was found by family friends.
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