Family of Utah man say they found out he was shot dead from the news

A young Utah law student was shot dead by cops during a traffic stop – and his family now claim they found out about the horrific killing from news reports. Chase Allen (pictured left), 25, was gunned down by five cops from Farmington Police Department on March 1 as his blue BMW 3-Series was parked outside a local post office. Cops claim the situation escalated after Allen became non-compliant after being asked why his sedan didn’t have a license plate. It’s unclear if he was armed. Grim photos taken shortly afterwards show Allen’s feet, clad in red hi-top sneakers, peeping out from the bottom of a stretcher, while his bullet-riddled car sat nearby.

Allen’s family say they weren’t properly informed of his brutal death. They’ve accused the police department of unlawfully killing their loved-one, and have accused cops of a cover-up. In a statement to FOX 13, Allan’s family said that the death has been ‘devastating and tragic’ and that they’ve ‘not been permitted’ to see him yet. ‘Police are stonewalling us. Our family has not been permitted to see Chase and has not been contacted by authorities or justice departments with information surrounding this investigation,’ wrote Diane Allan, Chase’s mother. ‘Our family was not properly notified of Chase’s death as next of kin. We found out about Chase’s death along with the entirety of our community via news reporters and articles written online.’

Allan graduated from Davis High School in 2016, before going to play soccer at UC-Davis and Utah State University. His mother said that he’d been studying law in recent years. ‘[Chase] was a gracious, loving soul who was known by everyone in his community to be caring, thoughtful, and kind and would do anything for someone in need,’ she wrote. ‘He was always selflessly helping and protecting others in need.’ The grieving mother said that Allan had a ‘shy and quiet demeanor’ but was quick to make friends who she said will remember him fondly. ‘He was always selflessly helping and protecting others in need. He has been studying law the last few years and was a patriot doing what he could to defend the people’s freedom and liberty in his community,’ she said. The statement claims that there had been a request for multiple officers to the scene a couple of blocks before the stop. Police have offered few details about the case.

The five officers involved have been placed on administrative leave during an investigation – making up 20 percent of the force. Chase was living at home with his parents at the time of the shooting in the same city where he had grown up. ‘There’s a lot missing from this, right? What the circumstances were,’ said Chris Burbank, retired Salt Lake City police chief to the outlet. On Wednesday around 3.30 pm Allan was pulled over in a post office parking lot for driving with no license plates. A Farmington police officer requested backup and, according to police, Allan refused to exit the vehicle.

Officers said that during the attempt to get him out, multiple shots were fired. ‘That’s how we train and I know my guys and if they fired shots I’m certain they were in fear of their life,’ said Farmington Police chief Eric Johnsen to FOX 13. ‘I will argue there is no license plate infraction in this country that is worth the loss of someone’s life,’ said Burbank. Allan was shot inside the car and later died in hospital. ‘It is the responsibility of the government to tell the public what we engaged in,’ Burbank said. ‘This is not unique to just cities or problems. We’re seeing this and it really is a failure of our system that we can change.’ None of the Farmington Police officers were injured and he Davis County Critical Incident Protocol Team has taken over the investigation. DailyMail.com has reached out to the police department.

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