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SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) — Police in South Salt Lake say an armed man has been fatally shot by officers after he killed an elderly woman and critically injured her husband. They say a man took a couple in their late 70s or early 80s hostage at a home around 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Unified police's SWAT team and South Salt Lake officers responded to the scene. South Salt Lake Police Chief Jack Curruth told the Deseret News that the suspect was fatally shot through a window.
SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — A Utah man once addicted to heroin after a baseball injury is sharing his story with youth groups to help prevent others from getting sucked in as he did. Derek Larsen is now sober with the help of a medication that blocks the effects of the drugs. The Daily Herald reports Larsen started getting VIVITROL injections in 2014 and has been mostly clean for more than three years. VIVITROL is a monthly shot that blocks the effects of opioids and alcohol.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a suspect has been arrested in the death of a St. George woman last week. St. George police say 28-year-old Kevin Ray Mcatlin was taken into custody Saturday in the Moab area on suspicion of murder. They say 33-year-old Elizabeth Carter was found dead in an apartment Wednesday. Her body was transported to Salt Lake City for an autopsy and the Office of the Medical Examiner classified the death as a homicide.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Some private investigators and genealogy experts want to use the same DNA-tracking system that identified the suspected Golden State Killer to solve decades-old murder and missing-person cases. Advocates want supporters to transfer their genetic profiles from companies such as Ancestry.com and 23andMe to a public database accessible to police. They say making the public database larger will help investigators find a suspected criminal. But the push is running up against privacy concerns.
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