3 officers injured in a Utah shooting and a man is taken into custody
The officers were responding to a disturbance call late Sunday in a neighborhood in Tremonton. The extent of their injuries and their conditions weren't immediately known.
'Upon arrival, they immediately began taking fire,' Police Detective Crystal Beck of neighboring Brigham City told reporters. 'They requested additional units. And then stopped answering their radio.'
Beck said once additional police arrived, "they were able to locate the subject of the shooting and take him into custody.'
Beck said she did not have the man's name. She said there was no threat to the public.
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But during her trial she denied being the shooter in the niqab, claiming during her trial that another 'American woman who sounded similar, used the same phone and had the same trainers' carried out the botched hit. She said it was just a 'terrible coincidence' she was caught on CCTV around the corner six minutes later. After he conviction, police described her as someone with a 'problematic relationship with the truth'. She met Nazir, who lived in Derby and who was 13 years her junior, on a dating app in September 2018 when he was using the name 'Dr Ice'. She soon started planning a planning a two-week trip to the UK to celebrate her graduation and New Year's Eve, arriving in London on Christmas Day 2018. Jurors heard Betro stayed in an AirBnB at King's Cross where she spent the night with Nazir. She returned to the UK again in August 2019 - this time to do Nazir's 'bidding' and try to kill his rival. 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She later dumped the Mercedes and changed her clothes. Police found a black glove with Betro's DNA inside. Betro then sent text messages to her intended target, the court was told. Screenshots of the texts were shown to the jury. She said to him: 'Where are you hiding? followed by 'Stop playing hide and seek you are lucky it jammed'. Betro then called another taxi to take her back to Measham Grove. Jurors were shown CCTV of a figure matching Betro's description firing three shots into the family home. The judge told Betro that while he accepted Nazir had recruited her, 'You were the gunwoman'. He added: 'You were engaged iin a complex, well-planned conspiracy to murder and were prepared to pull the trigger, and did so.' Betro flew back to the US the following day from Manchester Airport. Nazir flew out to join her three days later. He was arrested on his return to the UK. He and his father were jailed last year. Nazir was sentenced to 32 years for conspiracy to murder while Mohammed Aslam, 56, was told he would serve 10 years. Betro however remained on the run until the Daily Mail tracked her down to her hideaway in Armenia. The Mail told West Midlands Police about her location on June 15 last year and agreed to a news blackout until she was arrested to avoid her fleeing again before she could be extradited back to the UK.
