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At least two Ogden police officers were on leave Wednesday as an investigation began into their fatal shooting of an armed suspect who was wanted in an earlier attempted homicide case.
Ogden police Lt. Danielle Croyle declined to provide a specific number of officers involved in the late Tuesday afternoon shooting of Christopher James Roskelley, 38, of Roy.
Roskelley was a suspect in a Sept. 4 shooting at a Rite Aid parking lot near 800 24th Street in Ogden that left a 35-year-old man in critical condition.
Detectives had tracked a white car seen speeding from that earlier incident to Roskelley. Acting on information about addresses frequented by the suspect, gang detectives had set up a surveillance at 147 N. Harrison Blvd.
About 4:45 p.m., Roskelley drove a vehicle matching the earlier description into the home's driveway.
"Multiple officers" closed in on the vehicle and moments later "multiple gunshots" were fired, Croyle said. She confirmed that Roskelley "had a gun," but declined to say whether he had fired the weapon or threatened officers.
"That is all part of the investigation being conducted by the Weber County Attorney's Office," Croyle said, adding that investigators also were awaiting results of an autopsy on Roskelley being conducted by the State Medical Examiner's Office.
Roskelley was pronounced dead at the scene. No officers were injured, and a male passenger who was pulled from the suspect's vehicle, also was unhurt. The passenger was questioned and released.
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