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- Rocky Escareno Rivera was charged with attempted murder Monday, after police say he stabbed and shot at a man outside a house in Logan.
- The fight, part of an apparent child care dispute, was partially captured on doorbell camera.
- Additional drug-related charges were filed Wednesday after a search of Rivera's home turn up marijuana, police say.
LOGAN — A Logan man was charged Monday with shooting at a car with his child inside it after stabbing the driver multiple times in a dispute over child care.
Rocky Escareno Rivera, 32, is charged in 1st District Court with attempted murder, a first-degree felony; plus aggravated assault, possession of a firearm by a restricted person and felony discharge of a firearm, third-degree felonies.
On Wednesday, additional charges were brought against Rivera after a search warrant of the man's house turned up "a distributable amount of flower marijuana, together with baggies and a scale," according to an indictment. In that separate case, Rivera is charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, a second-degree felony; possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, class B misdemeanors.
The shooting happened Nov. 16 when a woman went to pick up her child from Rivera, who is the father. Police say the woman had "a dispute over the phone" with Rivera before picking up her child and enlisted her cousin to drive her to the house, according to a police booking affidavit.
The pair pulled up to Rivera's house near 100 North and 300 West in Logan, and doorbell camera footage acquired in a later search warrant shows the child walking toward the car with Rivera following, approaching the driver-side door.
Rivera starts stabbing the driver, and in the footage, "you hear the child scream and is seen running back toward the house," the affidavit states. The driver told police he "put his hands up to try and stop the stabbing" and "attempted to exit the vehicle, but his door was being blocked by (Rivera)."
Doorbell footage shows the "vehicle is revving and lurching forward before driving a short distance down the road," the arrest report says, and "(Rivera) continued to stab him until he was able to put the vehicle in drive and get away."
The woman and her cousin told police they realized after escaping that the child had run away during the exchange, so they returned later that night, driving to the house for a second time.
Police say the camera footage shows Rivera coming into view, and he's "heard yelling something" before gunshot sounds. The driver of the vehicle says Rivera shot at the ground before pointing the gun at him and Rivera said, "I'm going to kill you," and Rivera fires a second time at the man, the affidavit states.
The driver can be heard telling Rivera "his child is in the vehicle," according to court documents, then Rivera approaches the car with a knife.
The two men "got into a physical altercation," and Rivera is seen coming "back into view and is bleeding from the shoulder," according to the affidavit. The driver told police "he did not remember stabbing (Rivera), but he must have."
Rivera was taken to Logan Regional Hospital with two stab wounds on his right shoulder.
Rivera has gang associations and has been previously convicted of numerous charges of drug possession and manufacturing across multiple cases, according to police. He is being held without bail at the Cache County Jail and has an initial appearance scheduled for Wednesday regarding the new drug charges.
