St. George police officer Seth LeFevre was honored by the Utah Chiefs of Police Association with its Officer of the Year Award during the association's conference last month.
started in Southern Utah and crossed into Arizona when a man wanted for an incident involving a firearm took an infant from his mother at gunpoint and used him as a hostage while fleeing from police.
That man ditched the car he used to escape police and ran with the baby into the desert and pointed a gun to the baby's head as he told officers to back off. It was at this time a SWAT marksman made a shot that fatally wounded the kidnapper and secured the rescue of the toddler who escaped the ordeal uninjured.
That SWAT marksman was St. George police officer Seth LeFevre. He was honored by the Utah Chiefs of Police Association with its Officer of the Year Award during the association's conference last month.
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