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SALT LAKE CITY -- A former mission president for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was killed during a carjacking.
Officials say 48-year-old Salomon Jaar of Honduras was traveling from El Salvador to the Guatemala LDS temple last week with his family and a friend. Professional robbers forced the group to pull over, struck Jaar in the stomach, then stole jewelry and a little money.
An autopsy revealed Jaar died of "asphyxiation by aspiration." No one else was hurt.
Jaar was a former LDS Area Authority Seventy and a former mission president, as well as a Honduran government official.
