Sergeant Cory Blake Wride, 44, was shot and killed on January 30, 2014, after stopping to check what he believed to be an abandoned pickup truck on Highway 73 near Eagle Mountain, Utah. A 19-year veteran of the Utah County Sheriff’s Office and a Utah National Guard veteran, Wride approached the truck and spoke with its occupants before returning to his patrol car. As he sat in his vehicle a passenger, Jose Angel Garcia-Jauregui, 27, fired through the truck’s rear window, striking Wride multiple times and killing him.

The initial contact lasted about 20 minutes while Wride attempted to verify Garcia-Jauregui’s identity. After the shooting, Garcia-Jauregui and a 17-year-old female who was driving fled, and Wride’s broadcast of the vehicle description led to a multi-county pursuit. During the chase another deputy, Greg Sherwood, was shot in the head but survived. The suspects carjacked a vehicle in Nephi and later crashed on I-15 after an encounter with Juab County deputies; a shootout followed in which Garcia-Jauregui was critically wounded and later died, and the female driver was taken into custody.

Does anyone have information about Sergeant Wride’s last known movements on Highway 73 or about the pickup truck seen that day?