A security worker for the LDS church reveals to ABC 4 News, security guards watching over the crowds at Music and the Spoken Word the Sunday before the Trolley Square shootings were trailing a man he believes was Sulejmen Talovic.
The man spoke on strict condition of anonymity to ABC 4's Reed Cowan, saying, "There was a suspicious man with an overcoat and a back pack. By overcoat I mean a trench coat." The security worker went on to say that the young man, "appeared to be carrying something inside the coat that he kept adjusting."
The security worker says the young man resembled Talovic and in the week following the Trolley Square killings, many of his peers in LDS security agree Talovic was amidst the crowd at the conference center just one day before the shootings. "If we wouldn't have been on our toes something could have happened. We highly believe it was him."
ABC 4 News spoke with LDS church spokesperson Scott Trotter, who confirmed video tape was rolled on the suspicious person, and that the person had a similarity to Talovic. Trotter went on to say the video was not of high quality to make an exact match. He and the security worker who spoke to ABC 4 News say the man being watched left without incident. The security worker tells ABC 4 News he believes the man left after seeing that security procedures dictate purse and back pack searches before entrance to the conference center is permitted.
Salt Lake Police spokesperson Jeff Bedard also spoke to ABC 4 News about the story, and confirms police did view video tape from the Conference Center, but dismiss it.
The LDS Church and Salt Lake City Police won't say when LDS Church Security communicated about the incident, only to confirm that the two organizations had shared information.
