2 police officers killed, 1 wounded in Utah shooting
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Two Utah police officers were killed and a third was injured along with his service dog when they were fired upon by a suspect inside a home while responding to a domestic disturbance Sunday night. The shooting unfolded in Tremonton, about 70 miles north of Salt Lake City, Brigham City Police Chief Chad Reyes said at a news conference Monday.
Utahns are shaken up in the aftermath of the double fatal shooting of Sgt. Lee Sorenson and Officer Eric Estrada of the Tremonton Garland Police Department.Many
Gov. Spencer Cox called Sunday “a tragic night” after the killing of two Tremonton-Garland Police officers in a shooting that also injured a sheriff deputy and a service dog while responding to a domestic violence report.
Box Elder County leaders alternately lauded the Tremonton officers killed in an incident Sunday as heroes and lamented the tragic turn of events.
Tremonton City officials closed its city offices at noon on Aug. 18 and Box Elder County canceled its Draft Horse Show as the community plans to pause and come
Tremonton-Garland Police Sgt. Lee Sorensen and Officer Eric Estrada were struck by gunfire at the scene of a domestic violence call. Sorensen had recently been promoted to
Two officers from the Tremonton-Garland Police Department were fatally shot, and a third officer and a police service dog from the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office were injured by gunfire, after police responded to a reported domestic violence call in Tremonton on Sunday night.
Two days after the tragedy that resulted in the deaths of two police officers in Tremonton, the community is still trying to wrap its collective heads around what occurred.
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