14:02
Dispatch tries to get Sergeant Wride on the radio. Dispatch does what is called a Code 4 check, or a 1004 check. Basically, in Utah a 1004 is an “OK” response, or a way for dispatch to ask “Are you Okay? Are things, OK?” All that is returned is the silence of dead air. Wride’s car sits idling on the side of the road on SR-73 as the snow falls and the wipers keep the snow from the windshield. Dispatch assigns Deputy Morgan to assist Sergeant Wride and perform the Code 4 check. Deputy Dutson is in the Eagle Mountain office when he notices and hears the Code 4. His first thought was why it had been an hour before they did a Code 4 check on Wride. But then he remembers that it is not unusual for Wride to turn his radio down when he is talking to his family on the phone. Deputy Dutson goes back to his report writing.
14:13
Deputy Morgan, an eight-year deputy of the Utah County Sheriff’s Office, was at the Maverik gas station a few miles East of where Wride was parked. He responds to the Code 4 and drives past Wride’s patrol vehicle going westbound on SR-73. He looks over at him and all he can really see as he drives past is the Utah County patch on his left shoulder. Morgan, then turns around and pulls up behind Wride’s parked patrol vehicle. He noticed as he passed that there was not a vehicle in front of the patrol vehicle and that the computer still showed Wride as logged out at the stop.
Deputy Morgan exits his vehicle and walks towards the driver’s side of Wride’s patrol vehicle. That is when he sees Cory slumped towards his computer and he notices a lot of blood on the computer. He describes it as, “lots of blood all over the vehicle.” Then he walks around to the passenger’s side of the vehicle and that is when he sees the gunshot wound in the sergeant’s head.
Morgan calls Detective Eckles and explains what he found during the Code 4 check. Eckels tells him to, “Just start taking care of the scene.” The news travels quickly to the office, and there is some miscommunication. Deputy Dutson is on the phone when the lights in the room he is in flash off and on. He turns around and is told that Seargent Wride has been shot. He drops the phone, gets into his police vehicle and heads towards Wride’s location. Dutson was in such a hurry to get to the scene and the roads were so covered in snow and slush that as he goes through the roundabout at Pony Express and Eagle Mountain Blvd, he almost slides off the road.
Morgan takes some initial pictures of the scene and then does his best to try to tape off the scene while Eckles and other officers are in route. Deputy Dutson arrives on scene and parks his vehicle along side Deputy Morgan’s vehicle. He then helps control the scene and direct traffic as other officers and medical personnel arrive on scene.
Deputy McDaniel, a 27-year police officer, arrives on scene and pulls his vehicle yards in front of Wride’s vehicle, he notices tire tracks in the snow and parks ahead of them to preserve the tracks as part of the crime scene. As he walks back to Wride’s vehicle he notices several sets of tracks made by Wride as he walks back and forth from the white truck. He also notices that there are no shell casings in the road, or any signs of the hot shell casing melting through the snow. He approaches Deputy Morgan, “Have you checked his vitals?” Morgan responds to the negative, so Deputy McDaniel opens the driver side door and tries to speak with Sergeant Wride, he leans in closer and notices the blood, and the bullet wounds in Sergeant Wride’s forehead and neck.
Deputy McDaniel closes the driver’s side door and returns to his police truck. He then calls dispatch on his cell phone to avoid overloading the radio traffic. He gives dispatch the details of the vehicle of the motorist assist and asks for an attempt to locate (ATL) as well as a 10/200 in Utah County. A 10/200 starts a procedure where all agencies assist in the ATL. If the other agencies are not using the same dispatch system as the Utah County Sheriff’s office uses, then they contact the other dispatch agencies and have them broadcast the ATL.
14:19
The Unified Fire Authority handles emergency fire and medical services for Eagle Mountain.1 Their dispatch receives a call, and they dispatch a vehicle to the scene. Vehicle ML 252 is assigned the call the vehicle with its three EMTs proceed to the scene with lights and siren activated. The call was for an unknown problem on SR-27 at MM 31. En route dispatch notified them that there were several Utah County Sheriffs officers in route to the location and that they were unable to be reached on the radio.
14:27
The Unified fire Authority is responsible for emergency fire and medical services in Eagle Mountain. They receive a call from dispatch about an officer involved shooting. They swiftly dispatched ML-252, a member of Battalion 12, manned with three dedicated EMTs to respond to the urgent situation. ML-252 is a Type 1 fire apparatus, a 4-person ladder truck that is stationed at Eagle Mountain Fire Station 252,. The station is within a 4 mile drive from the reported incident. Within 2 minutes ML252 is leaving Station 252 and heading down Pony Express Parkway towards the scene. Its lights and sirens cut through the snow and weather. When they arrive on scene they are met by the officers who have secured the scene. They are kept from approaching Officer Wride’s vehicle, but are then eventually allowed to proceed, with restricted access. Seeing that they are unable to assist they are dismissed from the scene and return to station 252.
- Clarke, Patient Care Report ↩︎
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