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A man who was believed to be part of a peacekeeping team for the “No Kings” protest in Salt Lake City shot at a person who was brandishing a rifle at demonstrators, striking both the rifleman and a bystander who later died at the hospital, authorities said Sunday.

Police took the alleged rifleman, Arturo Gamboa, 24, into custody Saturday evening on a murder charge, Salt Lake City Police Chief Brian Redd said at a Sunday news conference. The bystander was Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, a fashion designer from Samoa.

Detectives don’t yet know why Gamboa pulled out a rifle or ran from the peacekeepers, but they accused him of creating the dangerous situation that led to Ah Loo’s death. The Associated Press did not immediately find an attorney listed for Gamboa or contact information for his family in public records.

  • @DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46•2 days ago

    Oh look. A conservative traitor instigated the violence.

    I am many shades of unsurprised.

    Domestic terrorists folks. Every last one. Because they’ve all chosen to support it despite knowing. Time to start treating them like the terrorists they are.

    • @AlDente@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8•1 day ago

      It’s being reported that Arturo is an activist who regularly open-carries in support at protests. Meanwhile you’re making confidently incorrect claims that he is a conservative traitor and terrorist. Stay classy.

    • @Crikeste@lemm.ee
      5•1 day ago

      You mean the thugs hired by 50501?

      I know Arturo, and if you did any sort of due diligence, you’d know he’s a hardcore leftist.

      If you think Arturo was a ‘conservative traitor’, I think you have more problems with simply accepting what our right wing media apparatus chooses to push.