Two police officers were injured in the altercation, which began with reports of 39-year-old Michael Bruce Peterson allegedly trespassing and harassing employees at a massage school before being shot in a Maverik parking lot at 300 South and 500 East on September 28, according to Salt Lake City police.
Peterson, a prison parolee, was shot after what Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown called “a very violent situation” in which a stun gun and a baton were used.
Witnesses had told The Salt Lake Tribune that the man got hold of an officer’s baton and was hitting him on the head with it.