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   From: jcarter@dont-email.me   
      
   A man who was shot during a “No Kings” protest in Salt Lake City, Utah, on   
   Saturday has died in the hospital, according to police.   
      
   “Our victim was not the intended target, but rather an innocent bystander   
   participating in the demonstration,” Salt Lake City Police Chief Brian Redd   
   said during a press conference on Sunday.   
      
   Police have identified the victim as Utah resident Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39.   
   The Utah medical examiner’s office will determine his official cause of   
   death.   
      
   Utah resident Arturo Gamboa, 24, allegedly raised a gun and ran towards a   
   protest crowd around 8 p.m., according to police.   
      
   Two people in neon vests armed with handguns, thought to be serving on a   
   “peacekeeping team” for the event, then moved to intervene, police said.   
      
   “During interviews, detectives learned the two peacekeepers saw Gamboa move   
   away from the crowd and move into a secluded area behind a wall — behavior   
   they found suspicious,” a police statement reads.   
      
   “One of the peacekeepers told detectives he saw Gamboa pull out an   
   AR-15-style rifle from a backpack and begin manipulating it,” the statement   
   adds .”The peacekeepers drew their firearms and ordered Gamboa to drop the   
   weapon.”   
      
   Witnesses said that Gamboa instead lifted his rifle and ran towards a crowd on   
   State Street, holding the weapon in firing position.   
      
   “One of the individuals fired three rounds, striking Gamboa and tragically   
   striking the man who later died," Redd said at the press conference.   
      
   Neither police nor Gamboa fired any rounds.   
      
   Gamboa, who had a minor gunshot wound, was later found “hiding in a group of   
   people,” Redd said, and officers recovered an AR-15 style assault rifle and   
   a gas mask nearby.   
      
   Police “have developed probable cause that Gamboa acted under circumstances   
   that showed a depraved indifference to human life, knowingly engaged in   
   conduct that created a grave risk of death and ultimately caused the death of   
   an innocent community    
   member,” according to the department.   
      
   The 24-year-old had not yet been charged as of Sunday afternoon, and his only   
   previous recorded interactions with law enforcement were two speeding tickets   
   in 2023, The Salt Lake Tribune reports.   
      
   The actions of the apparent peacekeepers are also under investigation, and   
   police have said the shooter is cooperating with officials. That individual is   
   not currently in detention.   
      
   Utah 50501, which organized the Salt Lake City protest, is also in contact   
   with police.   
      
   “Our team was directly involved. We have been in direct contact with law   
   enforcement,” the group wrote on Facebook. “Our teams just had to deal   
   with something extremely traumatizing and when faced with personal risk to   
   their own lives, chose to run    
   towards the danger in order to serve this community.”   
      
   The Salt Lake City “No Kings” protest drew an estimated 10,000 people.   
      
   The event joined a wave of “No Kings” protests across the country that   
   drew an estimated 5 million attendees demonstrating against Donald Trump’s   
   administration. More than 2,000 demonstrations in cities and small towns   
   across the country    
   participated.   
      
   The protests occurred largely without incident, though there were sporadic   
   arrests, and drivers struck demonstrators with their vehicles in Virginia and   
   San Francisco. The latter incident sent at least one one person to the   
   hospital with non-life-   
   threatening injuries.   
      
   Police and protesters also clashed outside a federal building in Los Angeles,   
   where police officers and sheriffs deputies in riot gear fired tear gas and   
   rubber bullets at protesters following a week of demonstrations in the city   
   against Trump’s    
   aggressive anti-immigration agenda.   
      
   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/innocent-bystander-fatally-   
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