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Mark Daniel Bess, age 33

Fatally shot on April 30, 2016 in Spanish Fork, Utah.

Bess was wanted on multiple arrest warrants. He was shot by a sheriff's deputy after a foot chase. The deputy said that Bess produced a knife and charged at him prior to the shooting.

His obituary states that Mark was battling a drug addiction. He was a graduate of Spanish Fork High School and was employed as an auto mechanic.

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