Ogden police officers shot and killed a man after he pointed a firearm at them and ignored commands to drop the gun, according to Ogden police Chief Eric Young.
At 1:19 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to a call from a woman at a house in the 200 North block of Eccles Avenue, Young said in a news conference Sunday. She said there was a man who was armed and intoxicated at the home and “acting erratically,” Young said. The man told the woman that if she called police, he would “handle it himself and take himself out” when officers came to the house, the police chief said.
Seven officers came to the home, where the man with the firearm confronted them, Young said. Officers repeatedly told him to drop the gun, but the man pointed it at them, the police chief said. Several officers opened fire, and the man was shot. He died at the scene, Young said.
Young said Ogden police had responded to “calls of this nature” previously at the same house, where the same man had threatened to use firearms against himself and police. The man also had been convicted of violent felonies, more than one of which involved a gun, Young said, and the man was “believed to be legally restricted from owning a firearm at the time of this incident.”
The police chief didn’t provide the man’s name.
The Weber County Attorney Officer Involved Critical Incident Team will conduct an investigation into the shooting, Young said. All seven of the Ogden officers were placed on paid administrative leave pending the results of the investigation.
For two of the officers, who are just beginning their careers, Young said, this is the second police shooting they have been involved in.
Sunday’s shooting marked the 21st police shooting in Utah so far this year, according to a database maintained by The Salt Lake Tribune.
