A standoff in a Taylorsville 7-Eleven parking lot between multiple police officers and a man wanted in a rape and robbery investigation ended in a large shootout Wednesday night, resulting in two officers being injured and the suspect killed. A West Valley police officer was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and a Unified police officer was hospitalized in serious condition. The man, Anei Gabriel Joker, 20, was also taken to a hospital where he later died from his injuries. The West Valley officer underwent surgery after being shot twice and was “stable,” police said Thursday. His name was not released. West Valley Police Chief Colleen Jacobs said she visited her officer at the hospital Wednesday night. “I was very relieved to see that he was talking and he was joking, and it was a great relief to know that he was going to be OK,” she said. “I have every confidence in this officer’s ability and will to recover from this.” The chief said her officer was shot in the left shoulder and left leg. But after undergoing surgery, his prognosis looks good. “He’s been with us for almost six years now. Great guy. Very good detective,” Jacobs said. “Can’t imagine that he’ll be (in the hospital) very long.” Jacobs added that West Valley City has a mental health professional on staff to help the officer, and anyone else, needing extra support after such a traumatic incident. “Anytime an officer or anyone else is involved in this type or traumatic event, there’s going to be scars. There’s going to be physical scars, there’s going to be mental scars,” she said. Unified police announced Thursday that their officer, who has been with the department for nine years, was treated at a hospital and was later released. He was at home resting Thursday. The standoff began at 10 p.m. Wednesday when officers spotted Joker parked in a 7-Eleven parking lot at 4110 S. Redwood Road. Jacobs said officers from several agencies were working an operation that night and looking for several people, including Joker. “This was a specific operation to look for some specific individuals,” she said, but she declined to provide more details about the operation or what agency was leading that investigation. When Joker initially pulled into the convenience store, there were two other adults and an infant — believed to be about 9 months old — in his vehicle with him, Jacobs said. At some point, the two other adults got out of the vehicle. Jacobs said two of the three people in the car were the parents of the baby, but she could not say Thursday whether Joker was the child’s father. While Jacobs declined to give many details about Wednesday’s incident, she said once officers discovered that a baby was also in the car, “that would change (officers’) tactics drastically.” After negotiating with Joker for an undetermined amount of time, a team of officers was allowed to approach his vehicle and take the baby away from the vehicle. “(They) did so at great risk to themselves and we’re very proud of their efforts to make sure the safety of this baby was at the forefront,” the chief said. But Joker still refused to come out. “Officers were aware that this suspect is a dangerous suspect and that warranted being approached in such a manner and making every effort possible to get a dangerous suspect into custody,” said West Valley police spokeswoman Roxeanne Vainuku. “He still remained inside it, would not get out during that process of negotiation to try to get him to get out of the vehicle. At some point, he exited the vehicle and fired upon the officers,” she said. Numerous police officers, including members of the Metro Gang Unit, had boxed Joker in, taking cover behind their vehicles with their guns drawn as they tried to negotiate with him. At about 10:30 p.m., police fired pepper balls — or small plastic balls filled with chemicals similar to pepper spray or OC spray — into the vehicle in an effort to get Joker to come out, Jacobs explained. “He did come out of the vehicle firing a weapon,” she said. During the final confrontation, a barrage of shots was heard from KSL camera footage. Joker struck two officers and was hit himself in the shootout. How many shots were fired and how many officers fired their weapons will be part of the officer-involved critical incident investigation, the chief said. Jacobs said Wednesday’s shooting was unique because of the number of officers from different agencies that were involved, similar to an incident on State Street in Salt Lake City in 2019. Typically, there are four protocol teams to investigate officer-involved shootings in Salt Lake County, but because officers from each team were involved in Wednesday’s incident, Jacobs said the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office was putting together a team made up of members of each of those agencies who were not involved to investigate.