SANDY, Utah (ABC4) — No charges will be filed against an officer who fatally shot a 16-year-old boy in a stolen vehicle who had struck a motorcyclist while fleeing from police.
On Friday, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill addressed a November 2023 officer-involved shooting where a 16-year-old with a disability was shot and killed by Sandy City Police officers after stealing a vehicle and striking a motorcyclist while wrong-way driving.
According to police, in the early morning hours of Nov. 9, 2023, a 16-year-old eloped from his group home. He would steal a vehicle in Bluffdale and then go on to steal a minivan from an army recruitment office in Sandy. Police responded and found the first stolen car crashed in Sandy around 6:17 a.m…