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She called Utah police to help her suicidal husband. They shot and killed him.

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill found the shooting justified, but also said it was “a shooting that did not need to happen.”

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Alexis Hilbelink at her home in Salt Lake City on Thursday, May 20, 2021. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill announced Thursday that a Unified police officer was legally justified in shooting Alexis' husband, Matthew Hilbelink, who was suicidal and who had pointed a gun at an officer.