In the early morning of April 16, 2018, 33-year-old Michael Keith Hogenson was shot and killed inside a residence near 3625 W. 1000 North in Tremonton, Utah. Hogenson, a White male, had been visiting the home when an altercation with resident Brandon Keith Thompson, then 30, escalated and Hogenson was shot multiple times. One wound severed his femoral artery and he bled to death at the scene. A woman asleep in the home was unharmed.

Thompson called the Box Elder Communications Center just before 3:45 a.m.; officers found Hogenson deceased and Thompson was taken into custody. Thompson initially told police he acted in self-defense, saying Hogenson threatened him and charged up a flight of stairs, but investigators reported evidence that did not match that account: the gunshot wounds were not on the front of Hogenson’s body, and the positions of blood and shell casings were inconsistent with self-defense, and Thompson delayed notifying authorities.

Thompson was charged with aggravated murder, possession of a firearm by a restricted person, and obstruction of justice. He later pleaded guilty to murder, a first-degree felony, and in June 2019 was sentenced to 15 years to life in the Utah State Prison. Appeals to withdraw the guilty plea were denied by the courts.

If anyone knew Michael Hogenson or has information about the events that night, please share what you know.