Taylorsville police shoot man following domestic dispute call

Taylorsville police shoot man following domestic dispute call


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TAYLORSVILLE -- A Taylorsville officer shot a man Saturday night. That man is now in the hospital in critical condition, and the Salt Lake District Attorney's Office is investigating.

What started as a domestic violence call ended with two Taylorsville officers firing at 36-year-old Robert Holliday. Prior to the shooting, officers responded to a domestic call near 3200 West 5800 South. When they arrived around 11 p.m., Holliday wasn't there, but they continued investigating anyway. Minutes later, Holliday came back home, saw police and ran.

The officers caught up with Holliday around 3340 W. 5900 South, where he pulled out what officers thought was a handgun.

Taylorsville Police Detective Shannon Bennett said, "Out of fear for their own safety, their own lives, they shot at the suspect. They hit and injured him."

Neighbors were certainly surprised by the shots.

Dillon Fryer said, "I woke up to shots fired. It kind of sounded like fire crackers."

That would have been a reasonable assumption given the quiet neighborhood. After all, that's why Fryer moved to the area from Rose Park. But Saturday night around 11:45, it wasn't quiet at all.

Another neighbor, Nathan Bahr, said, "I thought I heard, ‘Drop the gun, get on the ground.' Then after that I heard another volley of shots, and then we called 911.

Fryer added, "Then the next thing I know, there's about 20 cop cars sitting out in front of the house, lights flashing."

Holliday was transported to Intermountain Medical Center in critical condition.

There are still indicators of where the shooting took place--blood stains on the sidewalk, a bullet hole on the truck's mirror and a few fragments on the ground.

Police will not elaborate on where Holliday was hit or by how many shots.

They also haven't said if they found a weapon on him, and if so, whether or not he fired back.

Taylorsville Police says Holliday is a familiar face. "We've had several dealings with him. He's got a history of dealing with the police. It's unfortunate we had to deal with him in this sort of circumstance," Bennett said.

We discovered through court records that Holliday was convicted of DUI and failure to respond to police commands back in 2006.

The District Attorneys office will take the investigation from here. In the meantime, the two officers will be placed on administrative leave.

E-mail: ngonzales @ksl.com

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