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A day after the Wednesday fatal shooting of a bank robbery suspect by West Jordan police, the episode remained under investigation.
The suspect was identified late Wednesday night as 40-year-old Jesse Jay Taylor, of Spanish Fork.
Taylor had long criminal history, but primarily one of nonviolent misdemeanor offenses ranging from drug possession and use, to shoplifting, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief, according to Utah court records.
Most recently, Taylor was charged with misdemeanor counts of possession of heroin and methamphetamine, as well as possession of drug paraphernalia, after he allegedly bought heroin near the downtown homeless shelter in April.
When arrested shortly after police observed the drug buy through a spotting scope, Taylor was carrying eight "twists" of a substance that field-tested positive for heroin, a small baggie containing a substance that field-tested positive for meth and a ' "tooter' with burnt residue used as a pipe," charges state.
Taylor resolved that case Oct. 28 in 3rd District Court by entering guilty pleas in abeyance to class B misdemeanor counts of drug possession and possession of drug paraphernalia. Taylor was placed on court probation for 18 months and ordered to complete drug treatment and counseling. He also was ordered to pay a $500 fee.
Taylor's criminal history began in 1996, when he was 19, with a series of charges and subsequent convictions for possession of alcohol by a minor, court records show.
West Jordan police Sgt. Dan Roberts said Thursday, "... Our officer is doing well." But Roberts declined to release the officer's name, age or years on the police force.
He also declined to say if the suspect was armed, or give any other details about the shooting, which on Wednesday he had called "a shootout."
That information, Roberts said, was "still being investigated by the Officer Involved Critical Incident Protocol Team, and has not yet been given to us."
A state law requires that officer-involved shootings be investigated by a separate law enforcement agency.
Taylor allegedly committed an armed robbery at about 1:45 p.m. Wednesday at the Mountain America Credit Union, 6761 S. Redwood Road, in West Jordan.
Police spotted Taylor driving a truck and followed him in a "meandering path" to a location near 8880 S. 1075 West, where, at about 2:10 p.m., there was a shootout, Roberts said Wednesday.
Neighbors told The Tribune they saw multiple officers draw their guns, heard one of them yell, "He's got a gun," followed by two to five gunshots.
Taylor was taken by ambulance in critical condition to a hospital, where he died.
Roberts had said Wednesday that he could not immediately confirm whether an officer had fired the shots that fatally injured Taylor. He also said he didn't immediately know whether there was body cam or dashcam footage of the shooting episode.
Police confirmed that no officers were injured.