{"id":756,"date":"2025-10-25T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/?p=756"},"modified":"2025-10-25T09:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:03:26","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%a8utah-officer-cleared-in-shooting-of-woman-holding-a-screwdriver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8Utah officer cleared in shooting of woman holding a screwdriver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Utah police department has cleared an officer who opened fire on a woman in June after threatening to shoot her as she paced around holding a screwdriver and verbally taunted officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But a county prosecutor had a different interpretation \u2014 that the shooting was not legally justified and that the officer came ready to open fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police body camera video, obtained by NBC News, depicts Cpl. Jeremy Dunn of the Enoch City Police Department responding to the scene of a burglary call on June 28 and coming upon a woman refusing to drop a screwdriver as another male suspect stood near her side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The woman, Ivonne Casimiro, is seen in the video repeatedly telling officers to \u201cgo ahead, blow,\u201d as they aimed their guns at her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou come at me with that knife, I guarantee I\u2019ll smoke ya,\u201d Dunn told the woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After two failed taser attempts to subdue Casimiro, Dunn aims his gun at her. She raises the screwdriver in her right arm and starts to take a step with her left leg. That\u2019s when Dunn squeezed off three rounds at Casimiro\u2019s legs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigators said Casimiro was treated by paramedics after being struck twice in the knee. She was later treated and charged with assault on an officer and having a stolen vehicle, NBC affiliate KSL reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“She is not pointing the screwdriver at the officers, nor does she appear to be threatening them, although she is defiant and combative,” Iron County Attorney Scott F. Garrett said in a letter to the Enoch police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garrett, the county\u2019s chief prosecutor, concluded that the officer’s use of force was illegal, but he also said criminal charges would not be filed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It cannot objectively be stated that the officers or anyone else were in danger of death or serious bodily injury at the exact moment that lethal force was used,” he wrote. ” … It was not objectively reasonable for Corporal Dunn to use deadly force … “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The prosecutor decided, however, that the state would be unable to prove “criminal intent.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A report by the Enoch City Use of Force Review Board dated Wednesday came to a different conclusion \u2014 that the shooting was within department policy despite Dunn\u2019s admissions that he was aiming for the woman’s extremities and that he approached the confrontation having “mentally purchased” the idea that he’d have to open fire, according to documents in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city report states that “reasonable force was used” by Dunn, and it appears to support his decision to aim for Casimiro’s extremities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report said “Dunn chose to incapacitate the female suspect using lethal force in a nonlethal manner.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garrett had a different interpretation: There was still time to de-escalate the situation because the woman and her companion were a safe distance from the officers and had not charged at them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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