Officer-Involved Shooting

OGDEN -- Ogden police say a man was found dead in a home Sunday morning after a shootout and standoff with officers.

Video: Interview with Box Elder County Sheriff Lynn Yeates about fatal shooting of man by deputy.

CORINNE — A Box Elder County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a man who tried to run over him with his car.

The incident happened near 2250 North and 4100 West in Corinne shortly after 8 p.m. Friday.

Roseann Olson, who lives near the intersection, said she was in her house and saw a black compact car traveling on 2250 North, followed by a police vehicle with lights and siren on.

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 — A bank robber shot by police following a dramatic crime spree that culminated in a quiet South Ogden neighborhood last year is suing the Weber County Sheriff’s Office.

Michael S. Ames, 46, alleges his civil rights were violated and that Deputy Todd Christensen used improper lethal force when he shot and wounded him.

“I’ve had incredible physical and mental injury,” Ames said in the handwritten complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. “I was shot five times total. This shattered my hip, destroyed my digestive tract, and (caused) numerous soft tissue injuries. I am suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder also. I now wear a colostomy bag and no longer have normal use of my bowels.”

OGDEN -- A new grass-roots organization plans to support Matthew Stewart and advocate for an end to the violent system they say he and the police are victims of.

The first meeting of the group, called "Keep the Peace," was held inside a room of the Weber County Main Library at Jefferson Avenue and 24th Street on Thursday evening.

According to the group, the criminal justice system created a violent war on drugs that has to stop in favor of a more peaceful alternative, such as addressing drugs as a medical and social problem instead.

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.