Utah man holds victims hostage inside Riverton home with a sword

RIVERTON — A man armed with a sword barricaded himself inside a Riverton home with one woman and threatened to behead another one Friday, according to police.

On Friday, Tyler James Lyman, 29, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on suspicion of aggravated assault, a third-degree felony; interfering with a police officer, a class B misdemeanor; and unlawful possession of a dangerous weapon, a class A misdemeanor, according to the police affidavit.

The affidavit said Riverton police officers responded to a domestic disturbance involving the two victims and Lyman who was armed with a sword…

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