ROOSEVELT, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a man who shot himself in the head in eastern Utah is expected to survive. The Deseret News reports that police officers responded to a Roosevelt home about 2 a.m. Sunday on a report of domestic violence. They found a man outside the home […]
HARRISVILLE, Utah (AP) — Black Lives Matter activists in Utah are asking to see body camera footage of a police shooting that critically injured a man. The Standard-Examiner reports Jamal Bell was shot multiple times by police following a confrontation outside a Harrisville apartment complex last Saturday. Lex Scott, who […]
HARRISVILLE, Utah (AP) — Harrisville police say a man was hospitalized in critical condition after being shot multiple times during an encounter with officers responding to a report of domestic disturbance. The Harrisville Police Department says the man was wielding a knife in each hand when confronted Saturday by officers […]
A Sanpete County man is now recovering in the hospital after a standoff with police ended in an exchange of gunfire in Spring City Monday night. According to officials, 53-year-old Paul Harward had fired a gun in the direction of a female friend around 5:30 p.m. after she went to […]
FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — Prosecutors have cleared a Utah police officer in the deadly shooting of a man who authorities say refused to surrender weapons and fired shots. The Standard-Examiner reports Wednesday that Davis County prosecutors declined to pursue charges against Syracuse Sgt. David Skinner in the shooting of 64-year-old Allen Scott […]
OREM, Utah (AP) — A three-year veteran of the Provo police force was shot and killed during a shootout while trying to apprehend a fugitive in neighboring Orem south of Salt Lake City, the police chief said Sunday. Officer Joseph Shinners managed to return fire after he was shot and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Amid a sharp increase in fatal police shootings in Utah, a rift has developed between officers in Salt Lake County and the prosecutor charged with investigating them. District Attorney Sim Gill has decided against police officers in a handful of cases, and in some police […]
WEST WENDOVER, Nev. (AP) — Elko County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting over the weekend on the Nevada-Utah line. The West Wendover, Nevada police department reports one of its officers shot and killed the driver of a small pickup who produced a knife during a pursuit Saturday […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Ogden police say an officer fatally shot an 18-year-old armed robbery suspect after a chase and several crashes. Deputy Chief Eric Young says the chase and shooting occurred Tuesday after the man drove a stolen car away from an apartment that police detectives had under surveillance. […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Police in Utah say an ex-convict with a record of violent crime was killed in an exchange of gunfire with officers when a former girlfriend flagged down police after allegedly being abducted by the man. Police said Saturday that 37-year-old Richard Galvan fired first and officers […]
