A West Jordan police officer was justified in shooting a man who reportedly held a knife to his girlfriend’s throat and then raised it toward officers who were called to her apartment, according to report released Thursday by prosecutors.
Officer Brian White’s fear of Diamonte Riviore was “reasonable in light of all the facts,” Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said in a news conference in downtown Salt Lake City.
The mother of Riviore’s girlfriend had called police Oct. 11 to report Riviore, 22, had assaulted her daughter for the second time in less than a week.