A trial date has been set for Greg Kyle DeBoer, 63, who is facing a single obstruction of justice charge for burying the gun he used to shoot Patrick Hayes after a road rage incident in September 2024. The jury is set to convene on Jan. 11, 12 and 13, 2027, to determine whether DeBoer is guilty. He is not charged with homicide. DeBoer will appear for additional pretrial conference check-ins this summer and fall to determine whether a trial is needed or if another resolution can be found. The hearings will likely be conducted virtually. Meanwhile, Hayes’ fiancée, Sue Ann Kern, attended DeBoer’s pretrial conference Wednesday morning with 35 family members and friends. For Kern, the process is taking longer than she and her cohort would like. They’ve filled the courtroom seats at each hearing since DeBoer’s bail hearing in Fourth District Court in December 2024. “I can’t believe that they need more time to discover what has already been discovered. It is so unfair that Greg DeBoer gets another summer with his family and friends, another Christmas holiday season with his family and friends, and Patrick still is waiting for justice,” Kern said.  Kern said she and her family are “in this for the long haul.”  The shooting happened at the Ross Creek entrance of Jordanelle State Park. State park video surveillance footage obtained by The Park Record shows Hayes pulling up to the Ross Creek entrance at 11:09 p.m. on Sept. 25, 2024, with DeBoer following behind in his Jeep Gladiator. Hayes is seen approaching DeBoer’s vehicle with a pocket knife and baton before the men engage in a verbal altercation.  Exactly 30 seconds after Hayes steps out of his car, DeBoer fires a single gunshot. DeBoer is seen reversing out of the pullout toward S.R. 248, leaving Hayes injured and lying near his car. No 911 call was made until the following morning. A passerby noticed Hayes, deceased, 12 hours after the shooting.  The Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office obtained a warrant to search DeBoer’s home after a 48-day investigation. Deputies interviewed DeBoer, who claimed he used lethal force in self-defense.  DeBoer’s description of events leading up to the Sept. 25 altercation alleges that Hayes cut off DeBoer from an exit near Interstate 80 onto U.S. 40. DeBoer said Hayes repeatedly “ran him off the road,” but that no prior collision took place.  DeBoer’s claim of self-defense skirted a homicide charge and Wasatch County Sheriff Jared Rigby said there is no requirement in the Utah state statute to notify law enforcement of the use of force in a self-defense scenario.  The obstruction of justice charge, a first-degree felony, applies because DeBoer admitted to burying the Kimber 1911 pistol used in the shooting. DeBoer said he buried the pistol, which was wrapped in a plastic bag, tin foil and securely shut in a Pelican Case, under a large boulder about 100 yards from his home on his 20-acre Browns Canyon property. DeBoer’s attorney, Andrew Deesing, prosecutors and Fourth District Judge Jennifer Mabey agreed the way DeBoer hid the weapon was “unusual.” Deesing said Wednesday that more preparation is needed to understand if the case can be resolved without a trial.  “He is under the amount of stress you would expect somebody to be under in his circumstances,” Deesing said.  Deesing said DeBoer looks forward to his day in court to “prove his innocence to the conduct that’s charged.” The post Trial date set in 2027 for Ross Creek road rage shooter appeared first on Park Record. ...read more read less