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While friends and family mourned the death of Darrien Hunt, the Utah County attorney spent hours Thursday reviewing evidence gathered by more than 20 investigators in a shooting that has become the subject of nationwide controversy over race, police tactics and politics.

"We're getting a full 360 as to what was happening both prior to and during the incident," Tim Taylor said after meeting for three hours Thursday afternoon with detectives from multiple agencies.

Investigators on Thursday concluded their interviews with the two officers who fired on Hunt, 22. Police have said Hunt was lunging at them with a samurai-type sword when the officers fired — a claim Taylor earlier this week said was substantiated by "preliminary" evidence.

An attorney for Hunt's family has said eyewitnesses reported Hunt was walking away from police when he was shot, and the gunshots on his body, reportedly fired from behind, back up their account.

Taylor on Thursday would not provide details of the accounts of witnesses, of whom investigators have interviewed "quite a few."

"We're getting a good picture as to what we believe occurred," Taylor said. "We don't want to prejudge anything because we want to make sure our investigation is complete before we make any conclusions."

Taylor would not say whether witnesses and officers have provided any contradictory information, but he said each report has supplemented the others.

"There are witnesses from different angles who saw things ... different from what other people saw," Taylor said.

In all, Taylor's team has identified "dozens" of potential witnesses, from officers who were called to the scene, to motorists who were passing by.

After the shooting, Taylor received a strong response to fliers posted at businesses near the Top Stop convenience store at 36 W. State Road 73, where officers shot Hunt on Sept. 10, asking any witnesses to call his office.

Many have not yet been interviewed, and several follow-up questions are arising as more evidence is found.

Investigators also have reviewed some surveillance footage, which was captured from multiple cameras near the Top Stop. Some footage, which is unclear, will require further review, Taylor said.

Taylor also didn't discuss remarks from family and community members that race — Hunt was black, while the two officers are white — may have been a factor. Taylor and Saratoga Springs police officials previously have denied that, although the shooting has reignited debate over race and police use of force.

It comes barely a month after the fatal shootings of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., and Dillon Taylor on Aug. 11 by Salt Lake City police in South Salt Lake, prompted protests locally and nationwide.

The investigation into Hunt's death will not conclude until the medical examiner's report is completed, likely in several weeks, Taylor said.