The man who was Taken during the “No Kings” protest In Salt Lake City, Utah died in the hospital on Saturday, cited by the police.
“Our victim was not provided for target, but an innocent passer who participates in a demonstration”, Lake City Police Major Brian Redd told During the press conference on Sunday.
The police have identified the victim As Utah Resident Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39. Utah Medical Exams Office will determine his official cause of death.
Utah Resident Arturo Gamboa, 24, he allegedly raised his gun and ran towards the protest crowd for about 20 hours, towards the police.
Two people in the neon vests of armed towels, considered to serve on the “peace team” for the event, and then moved to the intervention, the police said.
“During the interview, the detectives learned that the two peacekeepers saw Gambo was moving away from the crowd and relocate to a secluded area behind the wall – behavior they considered suspicious,” a Police Statement He reads.
“One of the peacekeepers told Detectives that Gamboa pulled the Ar-15 style and start ordering his firearms and ordered his firearms and ordered the weapon and ordered the weapon to order. “
Witnesses said that Gamboa raised the rifle instead and run towards the crowd in the state street, holding weapons in the company.
“One of the individuals fired three rounds, striking gambons and tragically hitting a man who later died”, Redd told At a press conference.
Neither the police nor gambo shoot any circles.
Gamboa, who had a smaller wound from shooting, was later found “hiding in the group of people,” Redd said, and the officers returned the AR-15 assholes and gas mask nearby.
Police “developed the probable thing that Gambo was acting under the circumstances that showed depressing indifference to human life, consciously engaged in a serious risk of death and finally caused the death of the innocent community member”, according to the department.
The 24-year-old was not yet charged from Sunday afternoon, and his only previous recorded interactions with the implementation of the law were two accelerating cards in 2023. years, Tribune of Salt Lake Reports.
The actions of obvious peacekeepers are also under investigation, and the police said the scorer cooperates with officials. That individual is Not in custody at the moment.
UTAH 50501, organized by the Salt Lake Project, is also in contact with the police.
“Our team was directly involved. In direct contact with the law enforcement,” Group wrote On Facebook. “Our teams just had to face something extremely traumatization and when they faced personal risk for their own life, they chose to deal with the danger in order to serve this community.”
The protest of Salt Lake City “without kings” pulled around 10,000 people.
The event joined a wave “without kings” protests across the country that It drew about 5 million participants Demonstrating against Donald Trump administration. More than 2,000 demonstrations in cities and small cities across the country participated.
The protests were happening largely without an incident, although there were sporadic arrests, and drivers hit demonstrations with their vehicles in Virginia and San Francisco. The latter incident sent at least one person to the hospital with non-life injuries.
Police and protesters clashed outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles, where police officers and sheriffs are in turmoil regarding shooting and rubber bullets in demonstrations in the city in the city against the Trump aggressive anti-immigration agenda.