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SALT LAKE CITY — A man involved in the latest officer-involved shooting with Salt Lake City police has been released from the hospital and booked into jail.
Salvador M. Flores, 30, of Salt Lake City, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Tuesday for investigation of two counts of assault, being a restricted person in possession of a weapon, and resisting arrest.
Flores was shot in the early morning of March 3 after someone called police reporting a suspicious white truck in the parking lot of 7-Eleven, 535 E. 1700 South. The driver of the vehicle appeared to be casing the store to rob it, according to police.
Responding officers spotted the vehicle near 1135 S. State and pulled it over. Two officers asked the man to get out of his vehicle. As he stepped out, Flores started to resist the officers' attempt to arrest him.
According to a Salt Lake County Jail report, Flores "pulled away from the grasp of one of the officers and drew a weapon from his waistband."
The second officer who was watching the situation saw the gun and fired multiple rounds from close range. Flores was hit twice in the torso. Two guns that belonged to him were found nearby, police said.
The video of the shooting is a key piece of evidence that if released may impact Flores' right to a fair trial.
–Department statement
In his booking photo, Flores is wearing a hospital gown and his left eye is swollen.
Both officers were wearing body cameras and recorded the confrontation. However, unlike a shooting earlier this year in the Avenues, the man involved in this incident was not fatally wounded and there will be criminal proceedings against him. Because of that, Salt Lake police announced Wednesday they would not be releasing the body camera footage for now.
"The video of the shooting is a key piece of evidence that if released may impact Flores’ right to a fair trial," the department said in a prepared statement.
Utah court records show Flores was convicted last year on amended charges of attempted possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person and attempted drug possession. An arrest warrant was issued, however, after he failed to show up for sentencing.
He was also convicted on a federal firearms charge in 2007 but was sentenced to time already served, according to court records.
In that incident, police pulled Flores over and found he had a knife clipped to his belt and two syringes in his pocket, according to charging documents.
Flores also had a warrant out for his arrest from Salt Lake Justice Court for charges of assault in a domestic violence-related event from 2014.
According to court records, Flores used to go by the name Salvador Flores Miranda. Under that name, he was convicted of burglary, a second-degree felony, in 2007 in Summit County. He was sentenced to 45 days in jail and a suspended one-to-15-year prison sentence, but was later found to be in violation of his probation, according to court records.
In 2009, he was convicted of aggravated assault but several other felonies were dismissed, including two counts of aggravated kidnapping. On the day his trial was to begin, he failed to show up to court. He was later taken into custody and a plea deal was arranged.
