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A Utah woman saw her friend get shot to death and ended up spending 31 days in jail. Why? She missed a court date to testify.

She has never even been accused of a crime, but for 31 days starting in late April, Alexus Irizarry sat behind bars at the Salt Lake County jail.

The 18-year-old Utah woman was actually a victim — someone shot at her black Toyota Tacoma early one August morning in 2017 while she was at a West Valley City park, and one bullet struck her friend in the head. He died later that day in a hospital.

But seven months after the shooting, Irizarry found herself in handcuffs and being led to a cell. She had missed a court date to testify against Frank Tsinnijinnie, the 18-year-old man who police believe fired into the truck filled with five teenagers.