Utah Seeks Extradition for Deadly Church Shooting

0:00It's April 27th. This is Canada News Today, AI-powered stories from your city. I'm Cory with the story. Prosecutors in Utah want to bring back a 32-year-old man from California to face murder charges for a deadly shooting outside of church in Salt. Lake City. It happened January 7th in a parking lot during a funeral, leaving two men dead and six others hurt. John Viyah, Wasek, Jr. got picked up April 14th on two counts of murder plus weapons charges. The spot was a Mormon church that mostly serves Tongan folks, but cops say the fight had nothing to do with religion. It started as a dispute between people who knew each other, all adults at the event. The victims were Viyah, Tuliki, Hippo, 46, and Cioni, Batuwe, 38, both from the community. Witnesses watched the whole thing go down, with no hate aimed at the faith itself. New court papers unsealed Monday, lay out how UACK grabbed a gun from a black SUV, pointed

1:01it at someone's head, fired warning shots in the air, then blasted toward the crowd. He took a bullet himself, got treated, and bolted to California. Meanwhile, two other guys caught federal firearms charges back in February. Utah is pushing hard for extradition now, so we'll see if UACK ends up in court here soon to answer for it all.