SALT LAKE CITY Mon Apr 21, 2014 2:56pm EDT
<span id="articleText"/>SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - An accused street gang member standing trial in federal court in Salt Lake City was shot and wounded by a marshal on Monday as the defendant attacked a witness who was testifying against him, federal law-enforcement officials said.
<span id="midArticle_0"/>Siale Angilau, 25, who was not handcuffed, lunged at the witness on the first day of testimony in his trial and was shot by one of the marshals in the courtroom before being taken away by ambulance to a local hospital, according to Melodie Rydalch, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office.
<span id="midArticle_1"/>Rydalch said she had no information on Angilau's condition following the shooting. She said no one else was injured in the incident.
<span id="midArticle_2"/>The identity of the witness attacked by the defendant was not immediately available, but the individual was not a law-enforcement officer, Rydalch said.
<span id="midArticle_3"/>The FBI assistant special agent-in-charge for the agency's Utah office, Mark Dressen, told reporters outside the courthouse that the defendant "may have grabbed a pen or a pencil and charged the witness stand at that time."
<span id="midArticle_4"/>"The marshals did an exceptional job," Dressen said. "They stopped the threat to the witness. The courtroom was fully secured at that time, and there's not additional threats to the community."
<span id="midArticle_5"/>Multiple shots were fired at Angilau, but it was not immediately known how many times he was hit, Dressen said, adding that the defendant was still breathing when he was taken from the courtroom.
<span id="midArticle_6"/>Angilau was the latest of several alleged members and associates of the Tongan Crip Gang to stand trial on federal racketeering and other charges. Half a dozen co-defendants were convicted in 2011, Rydalch said.
<span id="midArticle_7"/>(Reporting by Peg McEntee in Salt Lake City; Additional reporting and writing by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Chizu Nomiyama and Mohammad Zargham)
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<span id="articleText"/>SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - An accused street gang member standing trial in federal court in Salt Lake City was shot and wounded by a marshal on Monday as the defendant attacked a witness who was testifying against him, federal law-enforcement officials said.
<span id="midArticle_0"/>Siale Angilau, 25, who was not handcuffed, lunged at the witness on the first day of testimony in his trial and was shot by one of the marshals in the courtroom before being taken away by ambulance to a local hospital, according to Melodie Rydalch, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office.
<span id="midArticle_1"/>Rydalch said she had no information on Angilau's condition following the shooting. She said no one else was injured in the incident.
<span id="midArticle_2"/>The identity of the witness attacked by the defendant was not immediately available, but the individual was not a law-enforcement officer, Rydalch said.
<span id="midArticle_3"/>The FBI assistant special agent-in-charge for the agency's Utah office, Mark Dressen, told reporters outside the courthouse that the defendant "may have grabbed a pen or a pencil and charged the witness stand at that time."
<span id="midArticle_4"/>"The marshals did an exceptional job," Dressen said. "They stopped the threat to the witness. The courtroom was fully secured at that time, and there's not additional threats to the community."
<span id="midArticle_5"/>Multiple shots were fired at Angilau, but it was not immediately known how many times he was hit, Dressen said, adding that the defendant was still breathing when he was taken from the courtroom.
<span id="midArticle_6"/>Angilau was the latest of several alleged members and associates of the Tongan Crip Gang to stand trial on federal racketeering and other charges. Half a dozen co-defendants were convicted in 2011, Rydalch said.
<span id="midArticle_7"/>(Reporting by Peg McEntee in Salt Lake City; Additional reporting and writing by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Chizu Nomiyama and Mohammad Zargham)
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