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On the night of January 5, 2019, 29-year-old Provo Police Officer Joseph William Shinners was killed during an attempted arrest in a shopping center parking lot in Orem, Utah. Officers from Provo and Orem had located a wanted fugitive, 40-year-old Matt Frank Hoover, in a truck parked in front of a Bed Bath & Beyond. As officers ordered Hoover out, he attempted to flee and Officer Shinners jumped into the passenger side of the moving truck. A struggle inside the cab ended when Shinners was struck by a gunshot to the chest. He was taken to Utah Valley Hospital and died shortly before midnight.

Shinners was a three-year department veteran, a husband and father of a young son, with another child expected. Hoover was also wounded during the exchange and was taken into custody at the scene. What details about the moments leading up to the shooting or the precise course of the struggle remain unclear to readers who followed the case?