A 32-year-old Taylorsville man was on the phone with 911 dispatchers reporting a break-in at his apartment near 1200 West Clubhouse Drive Sunday night when he told them he had just been stabbed. Two responding officers arrived to find a roughly 23-year-old man armed with a knife inside, and both officers opened fire, fatally shooting him. The stabbing victim was taken to a hospital in stable condition, and no officers were hurt.
The call came in at approximately 10:24 p.m. Sunday, according to KSL 5 TV, which reported that the resident updated dispatchers on the stabbing while police were still en route. Gephardt Daily, which had a crew on scene and said it would update the developing story as more details emerged, reported that the shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. Sunday and that police from multiple agencies were investigating. First responders had been dispatched to reports of a break-in and stabbing at the apartment complex, the outlet said. Taylorsville Police Lt. Aaron Cheshire confirmed the incident to Gephardt Daily but said he was unable to provide any further information.
Multi-Agency Investigation Now Underway
Because the confrontation ended in a fatal police shooting, Utah law automatically triggers an outside review. Utah Code § 76-2-408 requires that any police firearm discharge resulting in injury or death set off the Law Enforcement Officer-Involved Critical Incident, or OICI, protocol, which mandates an independent criminal investigation by agencies outside the department involved. In Salt Lake County, that means a rotating protocol team — such as Team 4, led by the West Jordan Police Department, which has handled prior Taylorsville-area cases per Hoodline's earlier coverage — steps in to keep the probe independent from the officers' own agency.
The same statute gives the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office up to 180 days once an OICI investigation is handed over to complete and publish its findings on whether the use of deadly force was legally justified. That timeline puts a firm, if distant, deadline on when the public might learn District Attorney Sim Gill's conclusions about Sunday night's shooting.
A Young Department Under Heightened Scrutiny
The Taylorsville Police Department is still a relatively new agency, having launched independent operations at midnight on July 1, 2021, under Police Chief Brady Cottam after city leaders voted in 2020 to break away from the regional Unified Police Department. That history matters now because of what happened just months ago. In May, Gill charged former Taylorsville detective Jimmy Jeremy Haas with second-degree felony manslaughter over the October 2024 fatal shooting of 28-year-old Henry Chavez Jr., after an independent review found Haas used unreasonable force, firing through the rear window of a pickup truck.
That charge, reported by KSL.com, marked the first time since 2014 that Salt Lake County prosecutors filed criminal charges against a police officer over a fatal shooting, according to Axios Salt Lake City. It's a rarity that has kept public attention on how Taylorsville officers use deadly force even as most OICI reviews across the county historically clear officers of wrongdoing — as happened in July, when Gill's office cleared Sandy Police Department officers and a Utah Highway Patrol sergeant in separate shooting reviews, per Gephardt Daily.
For now, key details remain unresolved: the identities of the suspect and the two responding officers have not been released, and it is unclear whether body-worn camera footage exists or which protocol team has formally taken over the investigation. Gephardt Daily, which first reported the shooting, said it would continue updating the story as more information becomes available.
