Demetrius Omar Lateef Allen, 27, a Black professional bull rider known as Ouncie Mitchell, was shot and killed outside an apartment near 900 South 200 West in Salt Lake City after an argument with 21-year-old LaShawn Denise Bagley on the night of September 12, 2022. Allen had traveled to Salt Lake City in September 2022 to compete at the state fair and had been staying with Bagley in an on-and-off relationship. After a dispute at a downtown bar the two returned to Bagley’s complex so Allen could collect his belongings; shots were fired and multiple bullet holes were observed that appeared to come from inside the apartment. Emergency personnel transported Allen to a hospital, where he died of his wounds.

Bagley was taken into custody at the scene and arrested on suspicion of murder and felony discharge of a firearm. She was initially released while the investigation continued and left Utah, was later re-arrested in Fort Bend County, Texas, on a fugitive warrant, and then had the murder charge dismissed in January 2024 when a judge ruled the shooting was justified after testimony that Allen had been trying to get into the apartment to retrieve his property.

Are there witnesses who saw what happened outside the apartment or recall the argument earlier that night?