2 Utah men shot by police in separate cases Thursday

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Two Utah men were shot by police in separate incidents hours apart on Thursday.

A Salt Lake City police officer killed a man who attacked him with a shovel about 4 p.m., authorities said. About three hours later, police in the city of Syracuse said officers wounded a man who shot at them during a domestic violence call.

In Salt Lake City, someone called police to report a suspicious man knocking on doors in the Avenues neighborhood and offering to shovel snow for money, Detective Dennis McGowan said. "There was very little, if any, snow on the ground," McGowan said.

One officer responded and started talking to James Dudley Barker, 42, but at some point Barker began hitting the officer with the shovel, he said.

The officer fired, killing Barker at the scene.

The officer was wearing a body camera that was turned on, but it was disabled at some point during the attack, McGowan said. Authorities are investigating how much usable information was recorded.

The officer, whose name was not released, was treated for fractures on his arm and foot at a local hospital.

About 30 miles north of Salt Lake, police in Syracuse received a 911 call about 7 p.m. from a woman reporting her boyfriend had pulled a gun during an argument.

The unidentified 49-year-old man shot at officers immediately after they arrived, and they returned fire, Syracuse police spokeswoman Erin Behm said.

The man was flown to a hospital in critical condition. No officers were hurt in that case.