text: Salt Lake City police confirmed one officer, and possibly a second officer, were involved in the shooting, but did not provide more details. 
   
   There was conflicting information about the boy's age. Hansen said that he was not 16, but older. Hansen said more details would be released later Sunday. 
   
   Salt Lake City police later said in a tweet that officers were responding to a call in area when they were alerted to assault in progress. 
   
   The officers "tried to engage altercation," the tweet added. 
   
   After the shooting, Salt Lake Tribune journalists saw and heard onlookers yelling obscenities at police and throwing rocks. 
   
   There were "a lot of hostile people upset about what had taken place," Detective Greg Wilking said. 
   
   Police detained multiple people, but Wilking could not elaborate on why. 
   
   According to Mohammad, the victim and a man were in a confrontation, and the victim was holding part of a broomstick at his side when officers ran up. 
   
   "They told him to put it down, once," Mohammad said, and "started shooting him as soon as he turned around." 
   
   Mohammad said that the teenager was hit in the chest and stomach. 
   
   Neighboring departments, including Unified Police Department, West Valley City, Sandy and University of Utah police, deployed to assist Salt Lake City officers. In all, almost 100 officers, some carrying riot shields, arrived. 
   
   Hansen said one officer was hit with a bottle, but he did not have details about whether that officer or any other was injured. 
   
   At 8:40 p.m., a line of officers moved people down the sidewalk on the south side of 200 South, from Rio Grande to 400 West. 
   
   Police closed the Trax Blue Line before the Old Greektown stop, providing difficulties for some fans leaving the Utah Jazz game. The TRAX trains resumed about 11 p.m. ||||| A man shouts at a police officer following an officer-involved shooting at 200 South Rio Grande Street in Salt Lake City, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. Unrest broke out in a Salt Lake City neighborhood on... (Associated Press) 
   
   SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A male who authorities say was wielding a broomstick was shot and critically injured by Salt Lake City officers Saturday night, touching off several hours of unrest downtown as officers donned riot gear and blocked streets and bystanders threw rocks and bottles. 
   
   The male shot by two Salt Lake City Police officers was in critical condition at a local hospital Sunday morning after being struck twice in the torso, according to Det. Ken Hansen with the Unified Police Department, which is investigating the shooting. Hansen did not have details about the male's identity or age, but a bystander told The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News that the male was a teenager. 
   
   Hansen said the shooting occurred when two Salt Lake City officers were called around 8 p.m. to break up a fight near a downtown homeless shelter that sits next to a shopping mall and movie theater. 
   
   When the officers arrived, they found the male in the street, hitting another person with the broomstick, Hansen said. Officers tried to break up the fight, but the male with the broomstick tried to attack an officer, he said. 
   
   One or both of the police officers then shot the male, hitting him in the upper and lower torso, Hansen said. 
   
   He did not have details about the identity of the other person involved in the fight, what prompted the dispute or whether anyone else was injured. 
   
   "There's still a lot to go through," Hansen said. 
   
   Police are not releasing the identity of the officers, he said. 
   
   Bystander Selam Mohammad told The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News that his teenage friend was shot by police. 
   
   Mohammad told the newspapers that his friend was holding the broomstick at his side when officers arrived and that police shot him as soon as he turned around. 
   
   Hansen did not have details Sunday about how many shots were fired or how far away the male with the broomstick was from police when they pulled their guns. He did not know the size of the broomstick or whether it was sharpened. He also did not know whether the male had a gun, knife or any other weapon on him at the time. 
   
   After the shooting, bystanders began yelling obscenities and throwing rocks and bottles at police, who called in about 100 officers to help. 
   
   Hansen said one officer was hit with a bottle, but he did not have details about whether that officer or any other was injured. He did not have details about any arrests and directed those questions to Salt Lake City Police. 
   
   Salt Lake City Police did not return messages Sunday morning. Det. Greg Wilking with Salt Lake City Police talked to reporters Saturday night but had few details about what prompted the fight or how the shooting unfolded. 
   
   "Our officers arriving on scene encountered a lot of hostile people upset about what had taken place," Wilking told The Deseret News. 
   
   Police, including officers wearing helmets and carrying riot shields, barricaded four surrounding city blocks. A light rail stop in the neighborhood was closed. 
   
   "We're locking down the area, barricading off streets and having a strong officer presence in the area," Wilking told the newspaper Saturday night. 
   
   He said some people were detained and witnesses were being interviewed at a police headquarters Saturday night. 
   
   "There were pockets of that disturbance for hours," Hansen said Sunday. 
   
   He said the protesters throwing rocks and bottles were people hanging out near the shelter. He didn't know if they were homeless, but he said they were not customers of the nearby shopping center. Hansen said the area was relatively busy, with people visiting the shopping center and restaurants and others hanging out near the shelter and homeless facilities.
target: – A male who authorities say was wielding a broomstick was shot and critically injured by Salt Lake City officers Saturday night, touching off several hours of unrest downtown as officers donned riot gear and blocked streets and bystanders threw rocks and bottles, the AP reports. The male shot by two Salt Lake City Police officers was in critical condition at a local hospital Sunday morning after being struck twice in the torso, according to Det. Ken Hansen with the Unified Police Department, which is investigating the shooting. Hansen did not have details about the male's identity or age, but said the shooting occurred when two Salt Lake City officers were called around 8pm to break up a fight near a downtown homeless shelter that sits next to a shopping mall and movie theater. When the officers arrived, they found the male in the street, hitting another person with the broomstick, Hansen says. Officers tried to break up the fight, but the male with the broomstick tried to attack an officer and one or both of the police officers then shot the male, hitting him in the upper and lower torso, per Hansen. Selam Mohammad, 19, tells the Deseret News that he was with a 16-year-old friend from Kenya when fighting started and the friend grabbed a broomstick to break it up. Police "ran up with their guns pulled out" and told the friend to drop the stick, Mohammad says. "He barely even turned around, then boom, boom, boom—and he just dropped," he adds. "My friend didn’t do anything." Nearly 100 officers, some with riot shields, responded when rioting ensued, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.