Utah football player Aaron Lowe vowed to carry on Ty Jordan’s legacy. Now the Utes are mourning through déjà vu.
A week after the sophomore cornerback was shot and killed, friends and family members are still searching for answers and struggling to process their grief.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The University of Utah football team head coach Kyle Whittingham mourns the loss of student-athlete Aaron Lowe during a candlelight vigil at the A Ray Olpin Student Union southwest lawn, Sept. 29, 2021.
Josh Newman began covering the University of Utah for The Tribune in 2019. A Long Island, N.Y. native, he covered Rutgers University and Monmouth University for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey for 15 years. Basketball remains his first love, a cold IPA coming in a close second.
Alex is an expat from Los Angeles who started his journalism career in 2013 after attempting, and failing, to become the next great rock star. He most recently covered local sports in Chico.