A bright Wednesday morning in West Jordan, Utah, turned tragic on June 28, 2017, marking the violent end for a 36-year-old Caucasian woman named Jill Lloyd. Just before 9 a.m., while stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of 7800 South and 2700 West, her life was abruptly cut short. Witnesses reported a man exiting his truck, walking over to her vehicle, and firing multiple shots through the window.
After the shooting, her car rolled forward, crashing into a tree and a wall a short distance away. First responders found her deceased inside her vehicle.
The gunman was quickly identified as 33-year-old Andrew Jed Larsen, also of West Jordan. Larsen and Lloyd had a past relationship and were parents to an 11-year-old son. Their connection was fraught with conflict, evidenced by a contentious paternity case that had been active in the court system for over a decade. Friends of Lloyd described her as a loving mother who was engaged to be married to another man at the time of her death.
Following the shooting, Larsen fled the scene. His body was later discovered in Tooele County, where he had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The incident was classified by authorities as a murder-suicide, a grim conclusion to a long and troubled history between the former couple. The tragic event was one of several domestic-related murder-suicides that plagued Utah during that same month. Jill Lloyd's death left her family, including her young son and fiancé, to grapple with the sudden and violent loss of a woman remembered for her vibrant personality and dedication to her family.
