The Unified police officer who shot and killed a man who was holding his ex-girlfriend hostage in a pickup truck in Magna in April will not be charged in the man’s death, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office announced Wednesday.
While Officer Trevor McClelland declined to give prosecutors a statement about the shooting — McClelland is the fourth Salt Lake County officer to do so this year — District Attorney Sim Gill said in a letter explaining that body camera footage and statements' from other officers indicated the shooting was justified under Utah law.
Lonnie Marcel Bowen was killed April 17, when police found him inside a pickup truck holding a knife to his ex-girlfriend’s throat.