SLC ‘No Kings’ protest shooting update: Arturo Gamboa, 24, was arrested and booked into jail on a charge of murder.
Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, was shot and killed while attending the event. Detectives believe he was an innocent bystander.
Witnesses say Gamboa had a backpack and gas mask, separated from the march and hid behind a wall, pulling out an AR-15 rifle.
Gamboa allegedly raised the weapon and started running toward the crowd of protestors.
"Peacekeepers" in high visibility vests participating in the event saw Gamboa. One pulled out a handgun and fired 3 shots.
One shot hit Gamboa causing a minor gunshot wound. He was treated at the hospital, released and booked in the Salt Lake County Jail.
One round hit the innocent bystander, ultimately killing him.
The “peacekeeper” in the high visibility vest who fired the 3 shots is cooperating with the police and has not been charged with anything at this time.
Arturo Gamboa, the man charged with murder at Salt Lake City’s “No Kings” protest, was raised LDS in Utah by a Venezuelan immigrant father.
He was a drummer in the radical anti-government punk band @RADEband . 𝗜𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄, 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨.𝗦. - “𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀.”
Near the end of a march from Pioneer Park to the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building, shots were fired. Salt Lake City police said they transported one person to a hospital and arrested another.
At the No Kings protest in Salt Lake City on Saturday, two armed security members spotted a man dressed all in black move away from demonstrators and to a secluded area behind a wall, the police said.
At that point, according to the police, the man started handling an AR-15-style rifle that he removed from his backpack. The security members drew their guns and confronted the man, who began running toward the crowd, holding his weapon in “a firing position,” the police said.
The police took the man with the rifle, who was identified as Arturo Gamboa, 24, into custody and charged him with murder, Chief Brian Redd of the Salt Lake City Police Department said at a news conference on Sunday.
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