Utah County deputy Joe Richardson was traveling more than 20 mph over the speed limit in his personal vehicle — which was not equipped with lights or sirens — when he struck and killed 22-year-old Joseph Spencer. Richardson will go to trial in June 2023.
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in Pleasant Grove that afternoon. No one was injured in the standoff. The black truck that Richardson was driving was his personal vehicle and was not equipped with lights or sirens, police said.Data collected from Richardson’s vehicle showed that he was traveling at about 56 mph just before the fatal crash as he drove southbound on 900 East, where the speed limit is 35 mph, charging documents state.
After the wreck, Richardson rendered aid to Spencer, the document reads, but Spencer was declared dead at the scene. The cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, a medical examiner determined. Richardson’s attorneys want him to be charged with negligent homicide instead of manslaughter, according to a memorandum filed in November. But prosecutors said there is enough evidence to charge Richardson with manslaughter after he “recklessly caused the death of another.”, the Utah County Sheriff’s Office, Utah County and Taco Bell, but dropped Richardson from the suit in August, according to court documents.. “He had an infectious laugh and smile, and he loved to make others laugh.
At the time of his death, he had recently served a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in San Diego, the obituary states. A BYU spokesperson said Spencer had been majoring in information technology.
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