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Utah man charged with 2016 rape is arrested in Mexico
Suspect is being held in California, pending extradition back to Utah.
The Salt Lake Tribune
A Utah man charged with kidnapping and rape has been arrested in Mexico.
The 27-year-old man, formerly of Kearns, is being held in California awaiting extradition to Utah.
In October 2019, he was charged in 3rd District Court with aggravated kidnapping and four counts of aggravated rape, all first-degree felonies. According to the charges, a woman told police that, on Sept. 17, 2016, she was walking down a street when two men got out of their car, grabbed her and forced her into the vehicle. They then took her to an abandoned house, she said, where one of the men raped her.
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.
Deseret News
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Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill discusses the officer-involved shooting of Damien Evans during a press conference at the district attorney’s office building in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 12, 2021. A West Valley police officer who shot and killed Evans, an armed parole fugitive, while working with the U.S. Marshals apprehension team on Aug. 27, 2020, was justified in using deadly force, but a second officer was not legally justified when he also fired his weapon during the incident, Gill’s office has concluded.
Steve Griffin, Deseret News
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.