6 police officers shot

OGDEN — Matthew Stewart was hospitalized over the weekend for emergency surgery resulting from complications with wounds he suffered in a shootout with police.

Stewart was shot in the abdomen and leg during the Jan. 4 confrontation with police serving a search warrant at his home. One officer died and five others were injured. Stewart now faces the death penalty.

Defense attorney Randy Richards told 2nd District Judge Noel Hyde on Monday he had been advised by Stewart’s family and Weber County Jail officials that Stewart is in a hospital intensive care unit and will remain in the ICU for at least two weeks. The hospital was not identified.

OGDEN — Damian Lira and Shane Blanch were spotted running from the police Saturday afternoon, but it was for a good cause.

The two were taking part in a fundraiser to help the families of six police officers involved in a Jan. 4 shooting in Ogden. Jared Francom was killed, and five other officers were wounded.

OGDEN — Policemen dragging wounded shooting suspect Matthew Stewart into the street is among the stark images on dash-cam video released Tuesday of a fatal Jan. 4 drug raid.

The Standard-Examiner obtained videos from the Riverdale and South Ogden police departments through a public records request.

In addition, the newspaper received seven Ogden police dash-cam videos Monday that record the chaotic scene following a raid by the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force at Stewart’s home at 3268 Jackson Ave.

Click here to see video of officer Michael Rounkles being transported to the hospital

OGDEN — The scene unfolds in stark black and white, with a police car barreling through ghostly streets in east-central Ogden en route to six officers shot during a Jan. 4 drug raid.

Exclusive dash-cam video obtained Monday by the Standard-Examiner through a state public records request shows the chaotic scene Ogden law officers encountered when they arrived at 8:42 p.m. outside the home of Matthew David Stewart, 3268 Jackson Ave.

Stewart, who was wounded in the shootout, is accused of killing Ogden police officer Jared Francom and injuring five others during the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force knock-and-announce raid.

OGDEN — Matthew David Stewart’s newest lawyer has filed another motion challenging the prosecution’s seizure of the home of the police shooting suspect.

Emily Swenson’s first motion, filed last week, rankled both the prosecution and one of Stewart’s public defenders. Prosecutors said it was the latest bid by Stewart’s defense team to depict the prosecution as skirting the law.

Public defender Ryan Bushell described Swenson’s motions as frustrating and muddying the public’s understanding.

OGDEN — With a large contingent of Matthew David Stewart’s supporters looking on, a judge scheduled the first public airing of the evidence against Stewart in a fatal shootout with police.

Second District Judge Noel Hyde set Stewart’s preliminary hearing for July 18-20 on charges from the Jan. 4 gunfight that left one officer dead and five wounded.