Arturo Gamboa is accused of murder after a demonstrator of “ no kings ” was killed, but it was not the one who turned Ah Loo

An innocent passer-by during a “no Kings” demonstration in Utah was shot down by a “peaceful soldier” who was targeting a different man pointing an AR-15 style rifle towards the crowd, according to the police from Salt Lake City.

Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, was fatally injured on Saturday evening, police announced. He was a renowned husband, father and fashion designer, according to a GoFundme page established to help his widow Laura and their two children.

Ah Loo, which was called AFA, was also co-founder of the Pacific Creative Pacific non-profit and appeared in the “Project Runway” fashion reality show.

He was one of 10,000 demonstrators who wrapped downtown Salt Lake City for a “No Kings” demonstration – one of the 2,000 national events denouncing the Trump administration.

While the authorities did not publish details on the “Garden-Garde” which shot Ah Loo, the man who was spotted carrying the rifle was arrested for suspicion of murder.

“The preliminary investigation shows that Ho Loo participated in the demonstration and seems to have been an innocent spectator who was not the planned objective of the shots,” said the police of Salt Lake City.

In a statement to the Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, the group that organized the demonstration, UTAH 50501 said one of its “security volunteers”, which is a military veteran, “took action” because they thought there was an “imminent threat”.

“Our team of security volunteers, who were selected because of their military experience, their first speaker and another relevant de -escalation experience, thought there was an imminent threat to the demonstrators and took action,” the group said. “The security volunteer who responded to the individual and who was questioned by the police is a military veteran.”

“We mourn AFA Ah Loo with everything we have, and we hold his family and friends in our hearts,” added the UTAH 50501. “The name, courage and commitment of the AFA to his people will never be forgotten.”

The group did not respond to the request for CNN comments.

Shots broke out around 7:56 p.m. during the demonstration on Saturday evening and stimulated “panic”, said police, sending people fleeing for safety in parking garages, behind barriers and businesses.

The police then found Ah Loo, who was seriously injured and died later from his injuries.

A few moments later, the police were reported and “found a man crouching among a group of people with a ball injury,” the police said.

The man, later identified as Arturo Gamboa, 24, was dressed in black with a black mask. The agents found an AR-15-5 style rifle nearby, a gas mask, black clothes and a backpack, the police said.

Witnesses reported that Gamboa ate the rifle in a shooting position and ran to the demonstrators, police said.

He drew the attention of two men with green vests in neon and wearing handguns which, according to the police, have identified themselves as “peacekeepers” with the event. One of the “Peace Wounds” pulled three laps, hitting Gamboa and Ah Loo, said police from Salt Lake City.

The video of the scene shows passers -by who overthrew the police and officers who put Gamboa in detention.

“It’s a rifle here,” we heard that a man says in the video when he does a few steps before putting himself A black backpack. “I just caught it from this guy here.”

As passers -by point to a man wearing a black shirt, black jeans and black boots, officers wearing helmets, shields from the face and armed with weapons are then seen in the video rushing to him, shouting orders to get on the ground.

Gamboa was taken to the hospital and then reserved in the County Metro Prison of Salt Lake for murder, police announced on Sunday. It is not immediately clear if Gamboa has a lawyer.

“The detectives have developed a probable cause that Gamoa acted in circumstances which showed depraved indifference to human life, knowingly engaged in a conduct which created a serious risk of death and finally caused the death of an innocent community,” said police.

Salt Lake on Monday morning, the office of the County of Salt Lake told CNN that no accusation had been finalized in the case. The DA office said that the case was still in the hands of the police service.

“While it continues to be an active investigation, any comment at the time would be inappropriate,” said the District of the County of Salt Lake, Sim Gill, in a statement.

CNN asked the Salt Lake City police on Monday for more details on the Gamboa potential murder accusation and if the person who shot Ah Loo could also face charges.

The two “peace soldiers”, who were not identified, were detained and questioned, police said.

Salt Lake City police said on Monday that the “peace soldiers” were not “supervised, sanctioned or trained” by the department and none of the men is current or former law enforcement officer.

“The detectives are still actively investigating this case, to include the actions of peacekeepers,” said Salt Lake City police. “The detectives could not determine, for the moment, why Gamboa has released his rifle and started manipulating him or why he ran soldiers of peace when they confronted him.”

“From the point of view of the ministry, these people are considered to be members of the public, subject to the same rights and responsibilities as any other person in Utah,” the police said in a statement on Monday. The police service also said that it was not clear if it had been hired or volunteered for the event, “or acted on their own initiative”, and a permit for the event does not detail the plans for organizing or armed security.

“The Salt Lake City police service does not manage or manage the roles and security responsibilities unless this requirement is described in the approved permit of the event, of which it was not,” added the police.

Volunteer peacekeeping teams are common for demonstrations, a basic national organization told the Associated Press.

As a general rule, the organizers ask the participants – including the soldiers of peace – not to bring arms, said Sarah Parker, national coordinator for 50501 Movement, partner of the “No Kings” demonstration.

But the complainants of Salt Lake City probably stopped which could have been a much more important tragedy, said Parker in the AP.

“Our security team did the best she could in an extremely sad and extremely frightening situation,” she said.