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Utah man shot and killed by off-duty FBI agent inside Nexus Brewery Investigators believe Cody Wrathall was armed when agent shot him inside Nexus Brewery Share Shares Copy Link Copy

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INVESTIGATION. BRANDON. REPORTER: COURT RECORDS SHOW CODY WRATHALL WAS ARRESTED FOR BURGLARY IN UTAH IN 2011. BUT NO SERIOUS VIOLATIONS OTHER THAN THAT. AS FAR AS THE INVESTIGATION GOES HERE, BOTH APD AND THE FBI SAYING ONLY THAT THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING WHILE APD DID IDENTIFY THE PERSON SHOT AS 43-YEAR-OLD COD WRATHALL, THEY ARE NOT SAYING WHY HE WAS IN ALBUQUERQU APD ALSO SAID THEY RECEIVED A CALL FROM A WOMAN INSIDE NEXUS SAYING SOMEONE WAS STALKING HE BUT THEY WILL NOT SAY WHETHER THEY WERE ON THE WAY BEFORE SHOTS WERE FIRED THEY ARE ALSO NOT RELEASING ANY 911 CALLS MADE FROM NEXUS. POLICE ARE SAYING AN FBI AGENT WAS AT THE BREWERY WHEN HE SAW A MAN WALK IN WITH A GUN, THAT’S WHEN THE AGENT PULLED OUT HIS OWN GUN AND SHOT THE MAN. A KOAT EMPLOYEE EATING INSIDE THE BREWERY WHEN THOSE SHOTS RANG OUT DESCRIBED THE CHAOS. >> WE JUST HEARD BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG. IT JUST SOUNDED LIKE SOMEBOD WAS JUST UNLOADING A FULL CLIP. THERE WERE SCREAMS. I HEARD SOMEBODY SAY HIT THE FLOOR. REPORTER: NEXUS DID OPEN BACK UP TODAY AFTER POSTING ON SOCIAL THEY WOULD BE CLOSED ON SUNDAY. MORE THAN 20 PEOPLE HAVE SINCE POSTED THEIR SUPPORT, PROMPTING THIS RESPONSE FROM OWNER KEN CARSON SAYING QUOTE. -- SAYING "WITH SUPPORT FROM OUR FRIENDS, IT MAKES IT SO MUCH EASIER. ALTHOUGH STAFF WAS SHAKEN UP THEY ARE HANDLING IT. THANKS FOR EVERYONE’S PRAYERS AND SUPPORT. IT HAS BEEN OVERWHELMING AND I I -- AND I AM THANKFUL TO ALL OF YOU." THE FBI DID RELEASE A STATEMENT SAYING THEIR INSPECTION DIVISION IS NOW INVOLVED IN THIS INVESTIGATION. BUT THEY ARE NOT RELEASING THE NAME OF THE AGENT INVOLVED IN THIS SHOOTIN