By - Associated Press - Friday, March 12, 2021
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A police sergeant was not justified in his involvement in a fatal shooting in Salt Lake City last summer and could face criminal charges, a Utah prosecutor announced Friday.
Charges have not been filed against West Valley City Police Sgt. Jason Vincent, but Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said “the matter remains open and under consideration until more information can be gathered,” KUTV reported.
Vincent was part of a federal law enforcement task force pursuing Damien Evans, who was wanted for parole violation, in August 2020. When officers tried to arrest Evans, he ran and was armed with a handgun, Gill said.
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West Valley City officer found not justified in what is his fourth shooting in seven years
Sgt. Jason Vincent fired at, but missed, Damien Evans as the man ran from police.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill walks through the findings of the Officer Involved Critical Incident Protocol in the use of Deadly Force by VFAST as a federal task force was searching for Damien Evans to serve an arrest warrant after he violated his parole last summer, during a news conference, on Friday, March 12, 2021. | Updated: March 13, 2021, 2:18 a.m.
Damien Evans had narrowly avoided being hit by three cars as he sprinted from swarming officers through a nearly empty Salt Lake City parking lot one sunny afternoon last August. The officers were trying to arrest him for a parole violation, but Evans didn’t want to go back to jail.
SALT LAKE CITY A West Valley police officer who shot and killed an armed parole fugitive while working with the U.S. Marshals apprehension team was justified in using deadly force, but a second officer was not legally justified when he also fired his weapon during the incident.
Those conclusions came from the Salt Lake County District Attorney s Office and were announced Friday.
District Attorney Sim Gill said Friday that his office cannot yet determine whether to file a criminal charge against that second West Valley police officer because he doesn t have enough information. We are ruling his shooting to be unjustified, Gill said during a press conference to announce his findings, adding that he has no context to explain why Sgt. Jason Vincent fired his weapon.
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