Pat Reavy interned with KSL in 1989 and has been a full-time journalist for either KSL or Deseret News since 1991. For the past 25 years, he has worked primarily the cops and courts beat.
SALT LAKE CITY — Jeffery Allan Larson didn't have a criminal record prior to killing his girlfriend in 2016, and he hasn't had any behavioral issues since being sentenced to the Utah State Prison.But on Oct.
15, 2016, unresolved past trauma may have triggered Larson to act out violently against 24-year-old Nisha Fnu."I wasn't thinking of the consequences of me reacting like that to cause harm to some other person. I was just caring about me," Larson told the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole on Tuesday. "I wish I would have thought more into it instead of reacting."Fnu's family, however, believes Larson should remain in prison and not have the opportunity to harm other women if he is released."We don't want this person to go out in this world so he can hurt other victims. … Please don't let him go," Fnu's brother pleaded with the parole board,Larson, now 38, of Magna, was charged with murder but pleaded guilty in 2018 to reduced charges of manslaughter and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to two to 20 years in prison on the manslaughter conviction and one to 15 years for obstruction. The sentences were ordered to run consecutively, through Larson was given credit for the time he had already been incarcerated.On Tuesday, Larson went before the parole board for the first time. He spoke softly, almost timidly, and gave short answers to board member Dan Bokovoy. The two first talked about a psychological evaluation performed on Larson after he was convicted.Larson grew up in an abusive home in Minnesota. His father would choke him and his siblings until they passed out, Bokovoy noted from the report. By age 12, Larson moved to Magna to live with an aunt and uncle. But the lasting trauma from being abused made Larson highly reactive to being grabbed by the throat."It just brings you back to seeing my father's face, just abusing me like that. It's like a major flashback," he said Tuesday.By 2016, Larson says he was in the process of getting a divorce and had become friends and romantic with Fnu. On the night he killed her, the two met in the parking lot of a Smith's grocery store, 5620 W. 4100 South, which they had done before because neither had told their family about the relationship.Larson says he and Fnu "never really argued," and initially the meeting was good-natured. But when Larson told her he wanted to go to a Halloween party that night with co-workers, he says Fnu became angry. Larson said Tuesd
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