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Ogden parents want settlement with city whose officers shot and killed their son

An Ogden family whose son died in a police shooting last month wants the city to pay a settlement and for officers to stop parking outside their home.

The parents of Jovany Mercado, 26, contend four officers should not have shot and killed him at the family’s home near 32nd Street and Gramercy Avenue.

“They were maniacs the way they were shooting,” said Juan Mercado, the man’s father. “They could have easily killed somebody else.”

At their lawyer’s office in Salt Lake City, Juan and Rosa Mercado, the man’s mother, also provided new video of the Aug.