SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah County Sheriff’s Office has said that a SWAT team member hit and killed a BYU student while driving to a standoff. Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon confirmed Thursday that a SWAT employee at the sheriff’s office T-boned and killed 22-year-old Joseph Spencer as the Brigham Young University student was pulling out of a Taco Bell. Police say the SWAT team member had been driving his personal pickup truck to respond to an incident in Pleasant Grove where a man with a gun was barricaded in a house and fired shots. The name of the sheriff’s deputy has not been released. He has been placed on paid leave.












