Residents of this northern Utah town are in mourning after two of the city’s police officers were fatally shot and a Box Elder County sheriff’s deputy and his police K-9 were wounded Sunday night.

“We’ve always grown up in small towns where stuff like this doesn’t really happen,” said Tiffany Taylor, who lives two doors away from the house where the officers were gunned down. “For something like this to happen was, it’s kind of surreal. It’s kind of hard to like process as reality.”

Gov. Spencer Cox, in an announcement Monday afternoon, identified the officers as Sgt. Lee Sorensen and Officer Eric Estrada. Cox said U.S. and Utah flags at all state facilities would be flown at half-staff in their honor.

Across Tremonton, residents are placing American flags and blue ribbons on homes, fen

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