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KSL keeps updating and changing this story so I'll post what I can here directly in adddition to a link.
Prior versions suggested the security guard was a vietnam vet with a permit to carry.
Charles
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=3722062
A violent shooting this afternoon left one man dead outside a Salt Lake City restaurant. Now police are trying to figure out what prompted the shooting near 1400 South and West Temple.
Witnesses say 47-year-old Mike James May, a transient in the area, began yelling at people who were sitting outside Mama's Southern Plantation restaurant.
The witnesses say May took a swing at the customers, threatened them and a security guard and then reached inside his jacket or backpack. That's when the security guard pulled out his concealed weapon and fired.
That single shot, which hit the May in the torso, was fatal.
Neighbors who were on scene moments after the shooting say it's unsettling. "People don't seem to care anymore. They don't seem to care who they shoot or what they disturb. It's ridiculous!" said Ben Hollands, a resident who lives nearby.
Police say the security guard has been very cooperative with them and, as of about a half hour ago, they have decided not to book him. They say they will meet with the district attorney very soon to discuss the case.
To listen to a short interview with a witness named Mitch McMillen, click the related audio link.
KSL keeps updating and changing this story so I'll post what I can here directly in adddition to a link.
Prior versions suggested the security guard was a vietnam vet with a permit to carry.
Charles
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=3722062
A violent shooting this afternoon left one man dead outside a Salt Lake City restaurant. Now police are trying to figure out what prompted the shooting near 1400 South and West Temple.
Witnesses say 47-year-old Mike James May, a transient in the area, began yelling at people who were sitting outside Mama's Southern Plantation restaurant.
The witnesses say May took a swing at the customers, threatened them and a security guard and then reached inside his jacket or backpack. That's when the security guard pulled out his concealed weapon and fired.
That single shot, which hit the May in the torso, was fatal.
Neighbors who were on scene moments after the shooting say it's unsettling. "People don't seem to care anymore. They don't seem to care who they shoot or what they disturb. It's ridiculous!" said Ben Hollands, a resident who lives nearby.
Police say the security guard has been very cooperative with them and, as of about a half hour ago, they have decided not to book him. They say they will meet with the district attorney very soon to discuss the case.
To listen to a short interview with a witness named Mitch McMillen, click the related audio link.
