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A West Jordan police officer was justified in shooting and wounding a man who, earlier that night, had allegedly shot and wounded a man outside a Murray bar, the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office said Monday.

On June 15, Officer Nicholas Dailami shot Andrew J. Davison Thomas several times after Thomas — who had his hands down the front of his pants — refused to show his hands, according to the DA's report.

After the shooting, investigators collected as evidence a 9mm handgun that, according to paramedics, had fallen from Thomas' right pant leg as they were treating him.

DA Sim Gill wrote in the report that Dailami was justified in using deadly force because the officer believed it was necessary to prevent death or serious injury to himself or others.

Thomas, 24, was subsequently charged in 3rd District Court with felony discharge of a firearm with serious bodily injury, a first-degree felony, and possession of a firearm by a restricted person, a second-degree felony. No trial dates have been set in that case.

Events leading to the officer-involved shooting began just after midnight on June 15, when Thomas allegedly shot another man in the stomach during an argument in the parking lot of the Barbary Coast Saloon, at 4242 S. State Street.

A witness later told police that Thomas yelled, "Say I won't! Say I won't!" before shooting 29-year-old Paul Woirhaye, according to charging documents.

Police arrived to find that Woirhaye had been taken to a hospital by friends.

Thomas had fled in a silver car, but a bartender had gotten the license plate number, charges state.

Officer Dailami was on his way home after completing his shift at about 12:30 a.m., when he heard an "attempt to locate" about the bar shooting on his radio and saw the suspect's car stopped next to him at a stop light, charges said.

The officer followed the car to a home near 2500 West and 4200 South, where he ordered Thomas to remain in the car, charges state.

Thomas, however, exited while cursing at the officer and telling him he didn't have to listen to him, while "fidgeting and trying to conceal something in his waistband," charges state.

Dailami ordered Thomas a number of times to "stop, get on the ground," and "stop reaching for your waistband," charges state.

Thomas then tried to get in the front door of the home, which was his cousin's home, then reached into his waistband with both hands, charges state.

Dailami then shot Thomas, believing the man was reaching for a gun, charges state.

The DA's report states that Dailami, based on the number of shell casings found at the scene, fired five rounds from his weapon.

Thomas' gun had a live cartridge in the chamber and nine rounds in the magazine. Thomas' gun also had an expended cartridge lodged in the ejection port, known as a "stove pipe" malfunction, the DA's report said.

At the time of the shooting episodes, Thomas was on probation in two 2012 felony cases, which are the basis the charge of possession of a firearm by a restricted person: an aggravated assault in which Thomas hit someone twice in the head with a pistol, knocking the victim unconscious; and a drug case involving possession of crack cocaine.

Thomas also has misdemeanor convictions for assault, failure to stop at the command of police and carrying a concealed weapon.

He was charged last month with third-degree forgery for allegedly trying to pass a bad check at a credit union, court records show.