In 2019, Michael Chad Breinholt was shot by a West Valley City police officer while in custody at the station. A new investigation by The Salt Lake Tribune and PBS Frontline found that it wasn’t Sgt. Tyler Longman’s first fatal shooting, and that he’s not the only Utah officer who has been involved in multiple shootings.
The Utah Attorney General’s Office found police acted appropriately when they responded to a protest in Cottonwood Heights last summer. Some community members wonder how they came to that conclusion.
“I remember my uncle calling me and he said, ‘I need you to sit down,’” Maestas recalled through tears. “And I knew right when he said that, something was wrong with Elisha.”
This is the fifth story in the Mountain West News Bureau series " Elevated Risk ," a project powered by America Amplified , a public radio initiative....