Fatal Encounters

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Joseph Kent Spencer

Name: Joseph Kent Spencer
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Race: European-American/White
Date: 03/16/2021
Location: 433 N. 900 East
Provo, Utah, 84606
County: Utah
Agency: Utah County Sheriff's Office
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Vehicle
Media summary: About 4 p.m., Joseph Spencer was pulling out of a Taco Bell, when his vehicle was T-boned on the driver's side door by a pickup truck, killing Spencer. The driver of the pickup was a member of the sheriff's SWAT team and was using his personal vehicle at the time of the crash to respond to an incident in Pleasant Grove where a man with a gun was barricaded in a house and firing shots.
Unique ID: 29814

News article: Link






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