A parole agent who fired five shots at a man — hitting him three times — while stopped at a Murray traffic light last May is facing charges after the Salt Lake County district attorney’s office found his use of force not justified.
The agent, Andrew Reed O’Gwin, who works for state Adult Probations & Parole, was stopped for a red light in an eastbound left-turn lane on 4500 South at Main Street about 12:50 a.m. May 13, when the car in which a parolee, Joe Alvin Gomez, was riding pulled up next to him in a lane to his left, according to documents from the attorney’s office.