Twice in 2015, Salt Lake City police suspected Melvin Shawn Rowland — who last week fatally shot student Lauren McCluskey on the University of Utah campus — of burglarizing the apartment of another woman he had dated, according to documents released Monday.
Rowland was not charged with a crime in either of those two burglary reports. In a third case in 2015, a woman reported she was afraid of Rowland, but it was that woman who was then arrested on suspicion of theft.
The four reports provided by Salt Lake City police on Monday further develop the portrait police and people who knew Rowland have painted of him — and of previous law enforcement contact with him — since he stalked and killed McCluskey outside her dorm on the night of Oct.