Read the arrest warrant affidavit here.
OGDEN -- Matthew David Stewart, accused of killing Ogden Police Officer Jared Francom and wounding five other police officers, told an acquaintance he would shoot law enforcement personnel who attempted to raid his marijuana-growing operation, authorities said Friday.
"Officers investigating this case have learned that the defendant had previously made statements to an acquaintance during the summer of 2011 that if police attempted to stop the marijuana cultivation he would go out in a blaze of glory and shoot to kill," says an arrest warrant affidavit issued by the Weber County Attorney's Office.
Stewart, 37, was charged Friday with aggravated murder, seven counts of attempted aggravated murder and production of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone. Stewart's house is directly across the street from a meeting house of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, making the house a drug-free zone.
