Friends, family and fellow police are mourning the death of the police chief in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy. Department officials said in a statement that William “Bill” O’Neal died suddenly on Sunday afternoon. He was with the department for more than 20 years before being named chief in 2018, after his predecessor was fired amid allegations of inappropriate touching of female colleagues. The Deseret News reports he died of natural causes, though the exact cause of his sudden death was not immediately released.












