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Article by Tiffany Caldwell of The Dalt Lake Tribune. Thursday, September 28th, 2017.
Salt Lake City, Utah- Michael Bruce Peterson(39) was shot & killed in The Maverik Parking Lot. The fatal shooting has been declared "justified" by Salt Lake County DA Sim Gill. The officers involved in the incident are 8 year veteran Gregory Lovell (the responding officer) & 20 year veteran Lt. Andrew Oblad (who was working his last shift before retiring) who shot & killed Peterson.
Peterson who allegedly trespassed & harrassed workers at a massage school at 363 S. 500 East, where he also allegedly grabbed a woman's buttocks. Officer Lovell tried to descalate the situation by following Peterson & telling him to stop & talk to him. Peterson ignored they officer's communication by continuing to walk away. The whole incident was caught on officer Lovell's body camera. Peterson continued to walk to the Maverik Parking Lot then proceeded to enter a vehicle that did not belong to him. Officer Lovell then commanded Peterson to exit the vehicle at which point Peterson shouted profanities at the officer. Lovell then deployed his taser which had no effect. Lovell's body camera shows Paterson exiting the vehicle. Peterson managed to retrieve Lovell's baton & began striking him with it. Lovell then radioed for backup & officer Oblad responded. Officer Oblad's camera was being charged (for it was the end of his shift). Oblad can be heard giving Peterson commands to sease & desist but Peterson then turned to attack Oblad. Oblad fired 10 shots in total to take Peterson down.
Both officers suffered injuries. Lovell had a broken ankle, broken nose, & lacerations. Oblad received contusions & lacerations but it's not immediately known how he received them.
It must be noted that Peterson has a history of arrests. In 2007, he’d been in and out of prison due to several parole violations, according to prison officials.
Most recently, he was at the prison for a parole violation from March to August of this year, according to prison officials. In August, he was paroled to the Fortitude Treatment Center in Salt Lake City.
According to his grandmother, who relented about her grandson — a father of two — was caught using drugs and was sent back to prison for a month. He was released from prison to a halfway house on Sept. 26, two days before the shooting.
The state medical examiner’s office hasn’t yet released a toxicology report, Gill said.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/10/25/da-sim-gill-to-discuss-case-of-man-killed-at-maverik-after-he-beat-slc-police-officers-with-one-officers-baton/
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