The Utah County Attorney’s Office is asking a judge to sign a no-bail arrest warrant for the man it charged with attempted murder this week for the August 2020 shooting of the security booth at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah.
Dallin William Litster, 26, was charged Wednesday with attempted murder, aggravated assault and criminal mischief in Utah’s 4th District Court. The charges were filed in connection to nine shots fired at the MTC security booth on Aug. 3, 2020, while a security guard was inside the booth, according to court documents.
The security guard jumped to the ground, then fled from the booth. None of the 9mm bullets struck the guard, but he was injured by broken glass. Several bullets struck the desk where the guard had been sitting, the charging documents stated.

Police were unable to locate a suspect until a deputy with the Twin Falls County Sheriff’s Office in Idaho reported that Litster implicated himself in May 2024 during a prisoner transport, according to an affadavit from a Provo Police officer. The deputy said Litster spontaneously said that he had shot up the booth during the COVID-19 pandemic but claimed that it was only vandalism because the booth had been empty.
The MTC was not training missionaries at the time due to the pandemic.
Officers also listened to a jail phone call between Litster and his ex-wife in which he allegedly said, “The thing is the thing I talked to you about in Utah about how I got in trouble down there or I could about the property damage there.” He later stated, “I told you they are trying to frame me for that thing in Utah, they are trying to say it’s something it totally wasn’t, you know.”
Surveillance video showed that the shooter drove a 2007 Subaru Outback that appeared to have an Idaho license plate. Provo Police learned that Litster’s father had owned a Subaru Outback Legacy with Idaho plates at the time.
Litster’s mother and cousin told police that Litster had driven a light-colored or off-white Subaru Outback at the time of the incident, according to the documents.
Based on that information and statements from Litster’s former roommates that he had been “very negative” about the church and had issues with missionaries, the Utah County Attorney’s Office requested the warrant for Litster’s arrest.
Litster is incarcerated in Twin Falls, court documents state. Prosecutors will seek to have him extradited to Utah to face the charges.
Surveillance video of the incident can be found here.