The man shot and killed on Interstate 15 during an altercation with a police officer had previously been charged with resisting arrest, among other offenses.
Riverton police have identified Branden Scott Markham as the man shot following a traffic stop Tuesday on a stretch of the highway in Draper. Markham was a passenger in the vehicle that had been pulled over, and got into a fight with the officer, leading the officer to shoot him. After being airlifted to the hospital, Markham died of his injuries.
Police had been surveilling the driver of the vehicle that Markham was a passenger in before it was stopped on I-15. The driver was also taken into custody on unknown charges…