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UPDATE: Deceased died from shotgun wound to back
KSL has posted an article with some updated information.
Full article at link above (no registration needed to read). Excerpts below:
The rest of the article deals primarily with the news media's request to release the video and the State agency declining to do so; along with explanation about which prosecutor is conducting the investigation to determine whether the shooting was legally justified due to various conflict of interest issues in at least one office.
Charles
KSL has posted an article with some updated information.
Full article at link above (no registration needed to read). Excerpts below:
KSL said:An armed man who was shot and killed by a Roosevelt police lieutenant died from a shotgun wound to the back, according to his death certificate.
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Norton, 36, died at Uintah Basin Medical Center on May 3, about 30 minutes after he was shot by Roosevelt Police Lt. Pete Butcher. The shooting ended a standoff that started when police received reports of an armed man who was acting erratically near the hospital, according to investigators.
Officers said they found Norton carrying a loaded handgun in a wooded area that borders a residential neighborhood east of the hospital. They negotiated with him for nearly an hour, then tried to subdue him with a Taser and special "less-lethal" shotgun rounds before he was fatally shot, investigators said.
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The State Bureau of Investigation, which is conducting the probe of the incident, has confirmed there is body camera video of the shooting, including footage of the shooting itself. Capt. Tyler Kotter, the unit's commander, declined to say whether the video provides an explanation for Butcher's decision to use deadly force.
The rest of the article deals primarily with the news media's request to release the video and the State agency declining to do so; along with explanation about which prosecutor is conducting the investigation to determine whether the shooting was legally justified due to various conflict of interest issues in at least one office.
Charles