Katie McKellar
Reporter at Utah News Dispatch
Reporter for @UTNewsDispatch. Formerly with @Deseret. Recipient of @UtahSPJ’s 2017 Quintus C. Wilson Ethics Award. Send tips to [email protected]
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5 days ago |
utahnewsdispatch.com | Katie McKellar
by Katie McKellar, Utah News Dispatch June 23, 2025 The Utah Senate has voted to confirm Gov. Spencer Cox’s appointment of Lonny Pehrson to be the first-ever director of the state’s newly created Government Records Office. The Senate on Wednesday, during an extraordinary session to consider several judicial and executive branch nominations, voted 18-8 to approve Pehrson’s appointment. Democrats, without debate, voted against.
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1 week ago |
utahnewsdispatch.com | Katie McKellar
Arturo Gamboa, a 24-year-old man who was arrested after a chaotic shooting at the “No Kings” protest in Salt Lake City on Saturday, has been released from jail. Third District Court Judge James Blanch signed an order on Friday directing Gamboa to be released from the Salt Lake County Jail, where he’s been held since Saturday night, with conditions agreed to through his attorney, Greg Skordas.
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1 week ago |
utahnewsdispatch.com | Katie McKellar
The national 50501 group that has organized “No Kings” protests across the country has disowned a Utah chapter after a shooting at the Salt Lake City protest on Saturday that killed a bystander who was marching in the protest. “Due to SLC 50501’s disregard for our nonnegotiable values, we are no longer affiliated with them,” the organization said in a Facebook post on Thursday.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Katie McKellar
Police respond after a man was shot during the “No Kings” protest in Salt Lake City on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)Top law enforcement officials briefed Utah lawmakers during closed-door caucus meetings on Wednesday about the shooting during the “No Kings” protest in Salt Lake City on Saturday which saw a bystander marching in the protest shot and killed by a security volunteer.
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1 week ago |
utahnewsdispatch.com | Katie McKellar
As questions continue to circle around the “peacekeepers” acting as armed security at the “No Kings” protest in Salt Lake City on Saturday, when police say one man inadvertently bystander when a shooting left one man dead, protest organizers issued a statement Tuesday saying the “safety volunteer” who was involved is a “military veteran.” “During the protest an individual was spotted holding an AR-15 style weapon,” organizers with Utah 50501 said in the prepared statement provided to Utah...
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From @NewslineCO: Use of Signal message ‘contradictory to Colorado law’ led to Utah student Caroline Dias Goncalves’s ICE arrest, sheriff says. Sheriff's office has also released body camera footage of her traffic stop, included in the story. #utpol https://t.co/ZfhuGs5FQX
The latest: ‘Peacekeeper’ involved in shooting at SLC ‘No Kings’ protest is a military veteran, organizers say #utpol https://t.co/2K9UM81thi
Police investigating ‘peacekeepers’ role in fatal shooting at ‘No Kings’ protest #utpol Organizers with 50501 say there are still unknowns, but "what is certain is that if no guns were present ... , this tragedy would have been prevented all together." https://t.co/LMdde40Ywx
