Salt Lake City police say a man was killed by officers at a downtown motel shortly after a botched robbery at a nearby vacuum cleaner repair shop.
It happened at 2:25 p.m. at the Colonial Motel, 1530 South Main. Police say several shots were fired inside a room at the motel and a male suspect, identified as 43-year-old Carl Hinshaw, was killed.
Salt Lake City Police spokesman Cary Wichmann says the shooting happened as police were looking for a suspect in connection with an attempted robbery at A-1 Vacuum Sales and Service on 1597 South Main Street. Wichmann says the officers confronted the man at the motel.
Business owner Dale Hedden says the suspect looked to be in his 30's, had short blond hair, and was wearing a mask and a hooded sweatshirt.
Hedden says he scared the suspect off after the suspect told him the gun he was using "wasn't real." Hedden says the suspect told him he needed to feed his kids.
"I took off running back here to get my .38 [caliber handgun] off the bench and called the dog, the Rottweiler. And the Rottweiler comes tearing around here, and he sees the big dog and my gun and out the door he went," said Hedden.
Wichmann says no officers were injured and nobody else was involved.
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