2 police officers killed, deputy wounded in Utah shooting
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Box Elder County leaders alternately lauded the Tremonton officers killed in an incident Sunday as heroes and lamented the tragic turn of events.
The man arrested in the fatal shooting of two police officers in Tremonton was previously accused and criminally charged in domestic violence cases, according t
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.
Law enforcement officers and public officials come together in solidarity after the tragic shooting that left two police officers dead and another officer and their K9 injured on Sunday. Governor Spencer Cox (R-Utah) called it a terrible and tragic night.
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
Officials say more lives would have been lost in the Tremonton shooting if not for the actions two city police officers who were killed and a sheriff’s deputy who was wounded.
Garland and Tremonton unified their departments, but like many other smaller departments, there are unique challenges they face.