An ILLEGAL ALIEN CONVICTED FELON who was not deported after serving 4 years in prison for second-degree felony attempted murder and third-degree aggravated assault murdered a sheriff’s deputy and seriously wounded another one yesterday.
Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy names Jose Angel Garcia-Jauregui, who was recently released from prison, as the man police say shot and killed Sgt. Cory Wride, in a press conference in Spanish Fork Friday January 31, 2014.
The suspect in the shooting death of one Utah County Sheriff’s officer and the wounding of another died Friday as law enforcement provided more detail on four shootings that stretched through two counties.
Jose Angel Garcia-Jauregui, 27, succumbed to his injuries at 2:20 p.m. Friday at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. He was shot in Juab County on Thursday after police say he shot and killed Sgt. Cory Wride, 44, and wounded Deputy Greg Sherwood, 38.
Authorities declined to specify Garcia-Jauregui’s injuries or how many times Juab County deputies shot him. Garcia-Jauregui had served 4½ years in prison for an attempted-murder charge and he also had a felony charge for assault by a prisoner dismissed. The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole released him, though it had issued a warrant for his arrest just days before the slaying of Wride, said Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy.
“We may never have a motive” for the shootings, Tracy said at a Friday afternoon news conference. “We do know he was a fugitive.”
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