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Saratoga Springs City on Friday identified the officers who shot Darrien Hunt as Cpl. Matthew Schauerhamer and Officer Nicholas Judson.
The announcement came in response to a Hunt family news conference earlier in the day in which they called for the names and more information about the shooting.
Also at that news conference, an attorney for the family said he is going to ask the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the shooting and reports of racial discrimination in the city where it occurred.
Lawyer Randall Edwards said that it's likely that the 22-year-old was dressed as a Japanese anime character and role-playing when the shooting occurred. Edwards says that could explain why Hunt was carrying a sword.
"I just can't believe that this kid in the costume was somehow posing such a threat to the officers or everybody else that deadly force was the first and only option," Edwards said.
Police shot and killed Hunt on Sept. 10 at an outdoor shopping mall in Saratoga Springs. Police have said Hunt lunged at them with a samurai-type sword when the officers fired — a claim Utah County Attorney Tim Taylor earlier this week said was substantiated by "preliminary" evidence.
Edwards, though, has said eyewitnesses reported Hunt was walking away from police when he was shot, and that the gunshots on his body, reportedly fired from behind, back up their account.
Edwards also accused Saratoga Springs police of using excessive force and treating Darrien Hunt differently because he was black. It's a sentiment echoed by Hunt's family, who also says he was shot because he was black.
Authorities, however, say race played no role in the shooting. In a statement, prosecutors said it will be several weeks until their review is complete. They declined to provide further details.
The office did, however, release a photo of the sword Hunt carried that day. It shows a blade that is 2 1/2 feet long with a point.
But Edwards wants to see more information that the attorney's office or the police department have yet to release publicly, including surveillance footage from several surrounding businesses or the officers' names. It's Edwards understanding, according to his release, that the officers were "not even formally interviewed with regard to the incident until over a week after it happened."
The lack of information is part of the reason he's calling for a federal probe. The Department of Justice will review the request for an investigation when it is filed, agency spokeswoman Dena Iverson said.
"Neither any police officers, administrators, nor, for that matter, any representative of Saratoga Springs city government, have answered any questions," Edwards said in the release. "They have so far not communicated with the family or their lawyers."
In a Facebook post, Saratoga Springs Police Chief Andrew Burton acknowledged the public's frustration over his department's "inability to respond to this situation," adding that the department feels the same. Burton also asked for patience and understanding of the department's position; all questions have to be answered by the Utah County investigators.
In its own statement Friday, the attorney's office said that investigators still have "dozens of interviews" that still need to be completed. The office is also waiting on reports from the medical examiner and the crime and toxicology laboratories, and anticipates those reports will take several weeks to arrive.
"We're getting a full 360 as to what was happening both prior to and during the incident," Taylor said Thursday, after meeting for three hours with detectives from multiple agencies.
Online court records show Hunt had previous encounters with Saratoga Springs police for a domestic violence dispute with a sibling and marijuana possession.
Hunt's mother, Susan Hunt, who is white, stood behind Edwards at the news conference alongside her sisters and spoke briefly, asking for authorities to tell her what really happened.
"All I see is my son being murdered and nobody wanting to come forward," Hunt said. "The police department hasn't shared anything with me."
Hunt's death comes barely a month after the fatal shootings of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., and Dillon Taylor on Aug. 11 by Salt Lake City police in South Salt Lake, which have prompted protests locally and nationwide.
Saratoga Springs City Council minutes show Judson was sworn in as an officer in May. It was not clear when Schauerhamer began working in Saratoga Springs. A search of state and federal court records did not reveal any civil rights lawsuits naming Judson or Schauerhamer.
Reporter Michael McFall contributed to this story.