Salt Lake City Police give update after protest shooting

A marcher critically wounded in a shooting at Salt Lake City’s 10,000-strong “No Kings” protest on Saturday night has died, police reported Sunday afternoon.

“Our victim was not the intended target,” Salt Lake City Police Chief Brian Redd said, “but rather an innocent bystander participating in the demonstration”

Redd said the 39-year-old man, whose name he declined to release, was shot by one of two individuals in neon vests who intervened when they saw a person raise a gun and run toward the crowd.

One of those men fired on that armed man, whom police called a suspect. These men in vests may have been part of the “events peacekeeping team,” Redd said.

Police did not arrest or detain those men, and Redd said the shooter is cooperating with police.

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