Sentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole for Aggravated Murder
Today, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill announced that a Third District Court judge sentenced Terence Trent Vos to life without the possibility of parole for the 2021 aggravated murder of his girlfriend, Shandon Scott.
On May 1, 2021, Unified Police responded to a crash on I-80 in Salt Lake County. Initial reports were that a female in the vehicle was deceased from many gunshot wounds. A witness to the crash stopped and saw the defendant in the driver’s seat and Ms. Scott in the passenger seat, who had blood on her and was not moving. The defendant tried to take the witness’s vehicle, but the witness stopped him. Shortly after, law enforcement arrived on scene and started attending to Ms. Scott, the defendant then ran from the scene. Police took the defendant into custody a short time later. The defendant told police that someone else shot Ms. Scott, but during a phone call while incarcerated, he told a friend he made that up and that he and the victim had gotten into a fight, and he shot her.
On Thursday, March 20, 2025, after a six-day trial, the jury convicted the defendant of one count of first-degree felony aggravated murder, three counts of first-degree felony discharge of a firearm with serious bodily injury, one count of first-degree felony possession of a firearm by a restricted person, one count of second-degree felony obstructing justice, and one count of class A misdemeanor failure to stop at command of law officer.
Today, a Third District Court judge sentenced the defendant to life without the possibility of parole for first-degree felony aggravated murder, five years to life for each of the three counts of first-degree felony discharge of a firearm with serious bodily injury, five years to life for one count of first-degree felony possession of a firearm by a restricted person, one to 15 years for one count of second-degree felony obstructing justice, and was given credit for time served for the conviction of one count of class A misdemeanor failure to stop at command of law officer. The counts in this case will run consecutive to the defendant’s previous sentence in other cases, but concurrent with each other.
“We applaud the judge for sentencing the defendant to life without the possibility of parole. The streets of Salt Lake County will be safer now that this violent habitual offender is behind bars for the rest of his life. We hope that Ms. Scott’s family can now begin to heal from the tragic loss of their loved one,” said Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill. “We appreciate the outstanding work of prosecutors Morgan Vedejs, Anna Rossi Anderson, and Cara Dunkelman, as well as our support staff. We also thank our law enforcement partners at Unified Police Department who thoroughly investigated the case to help ensure this successful prosecution.”