SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A stretch of highway will be named in honor of a Utah officer killed there earlier this year.
Both chambers of the Utah legislature unanimously passed the measure. A 15-mile stretch of Utah State Route 73 will now be known as the “Cory B. Wride Memorial Highway.”
Wride, a Utah County Sheriff’s sergeant, was fatally shot Jan. 30 while sitting in his patrol car on the side of the two-lane highway about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City.
The suspected shooter, 27-year-old Jose Angel Garcia-Juaregui, later died after a cross-county crime spree ended with him being shot by police. His girlfriend, 17-year-old Meagan Grunwald, is charged with aggravated murder. Prosecutors say she was the driver and an active participant.
Wride’s family was honored this week at the Capitol.
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