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The rally began at Pioneer Park, and organizers planned a march from the park to the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building at 7 p.m. Salt Lake City police estimated about 4,000 people were at the park.
Thousands began to march down 400 South/University Boulevard before heading north up State Street. The Federal Building is located another three blocks north, at 100 South.
Shots were fired just before 8 p.m. near 151 State Street. Protesters scattered in the chaos, unsure of who was shooting and where.
After the crowd scattered, one man was seen down on the street. He was later identified as 39-year-old Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, a well-known fashion designer who was once a contestant on “Project Runway.” Ah Loo died of his injuries, police confirmed on Sunday, the morning after the shooting.
While sheltering under a building near 100 South 200 East, protester Sam Hernandez saw a man with a rifle hiding among others in the alcove. He seized the man’s backpack, which was found to contain an AR-15 style rifle and a gas mask, police said. Authorities took the man into custody, and he was later identified as 24-year-old Arturo Gamboa.
Authorities held a news conference later Saturday night, where they identified Gamboa and said he was in police custody. Gamboa had also been shot, Salt Lake City Police Chief Brian Redd said. Two other individuals were also taken into custody, but Redd did not elaborate on why they were detained.
Police gave another update on Sunday morning, where they identified the protester who was shot as 39-year-old Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, and added that Ah Loo died of his injuries. Investigators believe Ah Loo was killed by a man who was apparently part of the demonstration’s “peacekeeping team,” Redd said.
The “peacekeeper” hit Ah Loo as he fired three shots at Gamboa, who Redd said was running into the crowd of protesters just before 8 p.m. with a rifle drawn. Authorities did not identify either of the two members of the “peacekeeping team,” and added that both were cooperating with police and that they were not arrested.
More than two weeks after the shooting, the Salt Lake County district attorney's office had not filed any charges in the case.
The group that organized June 14’s “No Kings” protests across the country severed ties with Salt Lake City’s local chapter on Thursday, and said in a social media post that every event organized with the group is expected to hold “a strict no-weapons policy, without exception.” The organization added that events organized by the local chapter “did not meet those standards.”
Arturo Gamboa, the man who police arrested after he was seen with an AR-15 style rifle at the “No Kings” protest, was released Friday, June 20, after prosecutors said they could not determine whether or not to charge him before their Monday deadline.
Gamboa was required to surrender his passport, and a condition of his release was that he cannot possess any firearms. The announcement came within hours of Gamboa’s attorneys demanding his release, saying his constitutional rights were being violated by his prolonged incarceration “for a crime he didn’t commit.”
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