Idaho man charged with 2020 shooting at Provo Missionary Training Center

Courtesy Provo City Police Department
Provo City Police officers respond to a report of shots fired at the Missionary Training Center on 900 East in Provo on Aug. 3, 2020.A Boise man was charged Wednesday for a shooting that occurred more than four years ago at the Missionary Training Center in Provo.
Dallin William Litster, 26, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and criminal mischief by the Utah County Attorney’s Office at the Fourth Judicial District Court in Provo.
According to a Provo Police report, nine shots were fired in the early morning of Aug. 3, 2020, at the MTC main security booth by an individual driving what appeared to be a Subaru Outback.
A security guard said he had to jump to the ground to avoid being shot and was injured by broken glass. The MTC was temporarily closed at the time due to COVID-19.
There were no suspects at the time of the shooting, and the Provo Police Department renewed a request for information on the shooting in 2022.
However, court documents state that in May 2024, Litster confessed to the shooting while being transported to a Twin Falls jail by an officer.
“(Litster) spontaneously stated that he had shot up a booth near the Missionary Training Center, in Provo, Utah, during covid. Defendant stated that the booth was empty when he shot into it and it was not a drive by, just vandalism,” court documents read.
The county attorney’s office said a Utah Valley University detective found Litster had been enrolled at UVU for the 2020 fall semester. Soon after the incident, he moved to Georgia and later to Idaho.
Court documents stated several of Litster’s former roommates in 2020 told police Litster was negative about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had prior issues with missionaries. Litster’s mother said he drove an off-white Subaru Outback and had firearms and mental health issues.
A Provo detective found a 2007 gold Subaru Outback that was once registered to Litster’s father with Idaho license plates and appeared to match the vehicle from the surveillance footage.
Litster is currently incarcerated in Twins Falls. The county attorney’s office will seek to extradite him to Utah to face the charges, according to the court documents.