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Shortly after 4 a.m. on May 19th, Jason Valdez, 28, arrived at a home in Ogden, Utah, to retrieve some of his belongings from the couple living there. The couple, not identified in press accounts, were storing a car and sundry other items for Valdez. Valdez's vehicle was towed at the direction of the couple's former landlord in mid-March or thereabouts.
Valdez, a fugitive parolee, had been sought for a month by Utah Adult Probation and Parole agents for possession of a firearm by a restricted person. He had been paroled from the Utah State Prison after serving time for an earlier felony firearms conviction.
His banging on the door awakened the home's female resident, who went to see what he wanted. When Valdez 0began arguing with her on the front porch, the male resident heard the commotion and, aware of Valdez's firearm-related criminal record, retrieved a handgun from under ...