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Saratoga Springs • The mother of Darrien Hunt — the sword-carrying man shot and killed in September by Saratoga Springs police — pleaded not guilty Friday morning to misdemeanor charges related to an alleged October dustup with officers from the same police department that fatally wounded her son.

Susan Hunt, 51, wiped tears from her eyes as she stood with her attorney, Ron Yengich, and entered the pleas to four counts: interference with an arresting officer, a class B misdemeanor; and failure to disperse and driving on a denied license, both class C misdemeanors. She was also charged with one count of disorderly conduct, an infraction.

Yengich has filed a motion in Saratoga Springs Justice Court asking that a jury trial be scheduled in the case. However, Lehi prosecutor Morgan Cummings asked for a continuance on Friday, and pre-trial conference was set for March 20.

Susan Hunt left the Saratoga Springs city building — which houses the justice court — with Yengich at her side and family and supporters trailing behind her. Neither she nor her attorney commented to reporters.

Saratoga Springs police spokesman Owen Jackson has confirmed that Hunt was investigated by Utah County sheriff's deputies for an Oct. 19 incident involving two city police officers in a Wal-Mart parking lot.

Jackson declined to provide details about Hunt's interactions with police. However, according to KUTV, Hunt allegedly pulled up behind the officers, who were conducting an unrelated traffic stop, and began to verbally and physically assault them.

The charges were brought by city prosecutors in Lehi, not Saratoga Springs where the alleged incident occurred and where 22-year-old Darrien Hunt was shot and killed.

The incident occurred more than a month after the Sept. 10 shooting that left Darrien Hunt dead from six gunshot wounds, after allegedly lunging at police with a Samurai-style sword.

Nov. 3, the Utah County Attorney's Office cleared the two officers involved in the shooting — Cpl. Matt Schauerhamer and Officer Nicholas Judson — of any wrongdoing, citing the officers' claim that they feared Hunt posed a public threat.

Hunt's family has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the two officers, as well as Saratoga Springs, arguing that the man's civil rights were violated when police demanded that he surrender the sword. The Hunt family also claims the shooting amounted to an excessive use of force, since Darrien Hunt was running from police when he was shot.

The family also has raised the issue of the deceased's biracial background as figuring into the fatal outcome of the confrontation with police.