Buk Mawut Buk biography: 13 things about Salt Lake City, Utah resident from Sudan

Buk Mawut Buk is a Sudanese man living in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. He is a citizen of Sudan and he previously lived in Taylorsville, Salt Lake County, Utah with his family.

After the death of Buk’s biological mother, Elizabeth Bol started taking care of him. His birthdate on his green card is January 1, 1999 but according to his birth certificate from Sudan, he was born in November 19, 2001.

Buk is one year older than his brother Deng Mawut Buk. Here are 13 more things about the former:

1. In 2011, he and Bol came to the U.S. as refugees. She did not know when he was born so the U.S. government assigned him the arbitrary birthdate of January 1, 1999.
2. On June 23, 2017, a case filed against him was dismissed because he was a minor.
3. In 2018, he was found guilty of shoplifting and failing to appear in court.
4. On March 4, 2019, he signed a plea deal and listed his age as 18 but on March 27, 2019, he said he was only 17 during an interview at the Utah Department of Corrections.
5. On May 26, 2019, he and Deng were arrested after assaulting police officers who were responding to a domestic dispute involving members of their family.
6. On October 12, 2019, he and an underage cousin robbed George Bekmezian and Bekmezian’s daughter, then 21, at gunpoint when the father and daughter were supposed to buy a phone sold online. He was arrested and charged with first-degree aggravated robbery and first-degree robbery.
7. On November 20, 2019, his attorney Lance Talakai brought up his Sudanese birth certificate in court and maintained that he was a juvenile because the government assigned him a birthdate that was not his.
8. In June 2020, he was convicted of robbery in two separate cases and sentenced to three years of probation.
9. In November 2020, he was found with ammo in his pocket that matched the caliber of a stolen handgun found in a vehicle and was taken into custody as a fleeing passenger of a stolen vehicle. He was charged with second-degree theft by receiving stolen property and possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person, which were ultimately dismissed. He pleaded guilty to failing to stop at the command of a law enforcement officer.
10. In March 2021, he was free on 36 months probation.
11. On September 26, 2021, he and several others allegedly crashed a house party near Salt Lake City that was exclusively for the University of Utah‘s football players including Aaron Lowe, 21. He is accused of firing two or three shots at Lowe and a woman, 20, Lowe was with during the party. Lowe died at the scene while the woman was hospitalized in critical condition.
12. On October 3, 2021, he was arrested and charged with murder, aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm and violation of parole or probation. He was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail without bail.
13. On March 11, 2024, he pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder. On April 29, 2024, he will be sentenced.