‘Innocent Bystander’ Dies After Shooting at ‘No Kings’ Protest in Utah as Police Charge Suspect with Murder

A man who was critically injured in a shooting incident at a demonstration in Utah has died, police have announced.

Fashion designer Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, was shot and critically wounded during the protest in Salt Lake City on Saturday, June 14. He later died in the hospital from his injuries, the Salt Lake City Police Department confirmed in a news release.

“The incident began at approximately 7:56 p.m. when a sergeant assigned to the SLCPD Motor Squad reported hearing gunfire near 151 South State Street,” the SLCPD stated. “Officers quickly moved in to secure the scene and search for any active threats [and] found a man who had been shot and immediately began life-saving efforts.”

The shooting reportedly occurred during a “No Kings” protest against President Donald Trump’s administration in Salt Lake City, per CBS News.

Ah Loo received emergency care from SLCPD SWAT team members, the Salt Lake City Fire Department and Gold Cross Ambulance, the release confirmed.  “Despite those efforts, the man died at the hospital,” police added.

According to authorities, Ah Loo was an “innocent bystander” participating in the demonstration and “was not the intended target of the gunfire.” His cause of death is being determined by the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner.

At around 8:00 p.m., officers and detectives were “flagged down near 102 South 200 East.” There, they found suspect Arturo Gamboa, 24, armed and dressed in black with a black mask “crouching among a group of people with a gunshot wound” and he was transported to the hospital, per the release.

Two men, identified as peacekeeping team members at the protest, at the scene reported to detectives seeing “suspicious” behavior from Gamboa before the shooting, claiming that they “saw Gamboa move away from the crowd and into a secluded area behind a wall,” and “pull out an AR-15-style rifle from a backpack,” per the release.

The peacekeepers then “drew their firearms and ordered Gamboa to drop the weapon.” Gamboa allegedly then “ran towards the crowd gathered on State Street, holding the weapon in a firing position” as the peacekeepers fired three rounds, one of which struck Gamboa and one which fatally wounded Ah Loo.

The two peacekeeper team members were detained. Though Gamboa did not fatally shoot Ah Loo, he was charged with murder. The cause of his involvement in the incident has not been determined at this time, and the investigation remains ongoing.

“Detectives have developed probable cause that Gamboa acted under circumstances that showed a depraved indifference to human life, knowingly engaged in conduct that created a grave risk of death and ultimately caused the death of an innocent community member,” police said, per the release.

“Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the 39-year-old man who was killed, and with the many community members who were impacted by this traumatic incident,” said Salt Lake City Police Chief Brian Redd.