The man arrested in the fatal shooting of two police officers in Tremonton was previously accused and criminally charged in domestic violence cases, according t

Two officers from the Tremonton-Garland Police Department were fatally shot, and a third officer and a police service dog from the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office were injured by gunfire, after police responded to a reported domestic violence call in Tremonton on Sunday night.

Simms explained, "If you kill a law enforcement officer, a police officer, you can face the death penalty in Utah. If it's a death when you're trying to escape custody, if it's particularly cruel, then you can face the death penalty in Utah.

Box Elder County leaders alternately lauded the Tremonton officers killed in an incident Sunday as heroes and lamented the tragic turn of events.

"We have Malinois here in the coffee shop, and [Estrada] would love on the Malinois every time he was here," Buttars said. "He wanted to have his own one day, but he had small kids, so he had to wait,

Utahns are shaken up in the aftermath of the double fatal shooting of Sgt. Lee Sorenson and Officer Eric Estrada of the Tremonton Garland Police Department.Many

Tremonton • Northern Utah law enforcement leaders said more people would have died in Sunday night’s shooting in Tremonton if not for the actions of two city police officers who were killed and a sheriff’s deputy who was wounded.

"It's hard knowing he's gone," Kortney Ferguson, a friend of Sorensen, said. "He was a good friend, a very good part of the community, and he was respectful, kind, and helpful on duty or off. He was always helping someone.